Authors on the Web
Guardian.co.uk, February 19, 2010
...of the natural world – which is to say, the unhuman world – pulses throughout The Wrecking Light , Robin Robertson's fourth collection and his first since the Forward-winning Swithering (2006). It can be heard in birds "calling out their names to...
Guardian.co.uk, February 19, 2010
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The Scotsman, February 15, 2010
...and some jobs are more compatible with the muse than others. Being a publisher is thoroughly incompatible, says Robin Robertson, who combines a career as a poet with being deputy publishing director at Jonathan Cape. 'It's entirely the wrong thing to...
Times Online, January 14, 2010
...Alexandra Pringle, Gwyn Pritchard, Simon Prosser, Monique Proudlove, Justice John T. Racanelli, Sirish Rao, Hepzibah Rendle-Short, Steven Rhodes, Robin Robertson, Mandana Ruane, Olivier Rubinstein, Michael Rustin, Jessica Ruston, Mark Rylance, Carole...
Guardian.co.uk, January 1, 2010
...by Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic, May) Poetry Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador, January) The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (Picador, February) White Egrets by Derek Walcott (Faber, March) Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock (Bloodaxe, May) ...
Huffington Post, November 18, 2009
...Books and drift out three minutes later, dashing toward track 42 with Marie Ponsot or Leonard Cohen or Robin Robertson or Ada Limón under my arm. There are times when my purchases are random; there are times when they're linked to some curious mental...
Guardian.co.uk, November 7, 2009
...poet at first book stage. Worth £3,000, it has been won in the past by Nick Laird, Robin Robertson and Colette Bryce. This year it attracted a record 92 entries. Morgan said he had 'never thought of [Natural Mechanical] as a prize-winning book'. 'I had...
Press and Journal, October 17, 2009
...Collection Prize will be announced on Saturday, November 7, during the 21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. Previous winners include Robin Robertson, Colette Bryce, Henry Shukman and Nick Laird...
The Scotsman, October 7, 2009
...US poet Donaghy, who died suddenly aged 50 and with whom Paterson played in an Irish music group. Robin Robertson, originally from Aberdeen, won this year's best single poem prize for At Roane Head. He has published several volumes and has worked several...
Guardian Unlimited, October 7, 2009
...to whom the Forward prize for best single poem is dedicated. That award was won this year by Robin Robertson for At Roane Head, a haunting poem about four children who are half-human, half-seal: 'All born blind, they say, / slack-jawed and simple,...
The Scotsman, August 8, 2009
...â' which includes his former student Matt McGuire â' look at a long list of poets, such as Robin Robertson, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. And they hope they will be able to bring an appreciation of these poets, and Scottish poetry past and...
Irish Times, July 24, 2009
...EAMON GRENNAN reviews Love Poet, Carpenter: Michael Longley at Seventy Edited by Robin Robertson Enitharmon Press, 125pp. £15 ONE OF MY favourite Michael Longley poems is Tree House , from Gorse Fires the 1991 volume in which the poet broke a 12-year...
BBC, July 23, 2009
...poem about meeting the then elderly American poet. Longley is on a shortlist of six alongside Paul Farley, Robin Robertson, Elizabeth Speller, George Szirtes and CK Williams. The winner will be announced in London on 7 October. In 2004 Longley's...
Guardian Unlimited, July 23, 2009
...for best single poem will be contested by Paul Farley for Moles; Michael Longley for Visiting Stanley Kunitz; Robin Robertson for At Roane Road; Elizabeth Speller for Finistere; George Szirtes for Song; and CK Williams for Either/Or. The winners will be...
Guardian Unlimited, July 22, 2009
...for best single poem will be contested by Paul Farley for Moles; Michael Longley for Visiting Stanley Kunitz; Robin Robertson for At Roane Road; Elizabeth Speller for Finistere; George Szirtes for Song; and CK Williams for Either/Or. The winners will be...
The Scotsman, July 10, 2009
...a restaurant. Alan Warner and his wife Hollie are great fun in that respect, so is my publisher, Robin Robertson. Who did you last text and what was the message? I texted my friend Kris Needs ten minutes ago. We were discussing an acquaintance who has...
Globe and Mail, June 8, 2009
...he has also generously agreed to deliver one of my lectures at Oxford); one of the Griffin Trustees, Robin Robertson, will be in charge of the day-today running of the campaign; and the Griffin Trust has very kindly offered to pay for the considerable...
The Scotsman, April 10, 2009
...won Canada's most prestigious fiction award along with a shoal of rave reviews. The new novel, says Robin Robertson, his editor at Cape, 'confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and...
Globe and Mail, March 25, 2009
...not scowling in the obligatory author's pic, a tic I've often wondered if he copped off Robin Robertson :)<---- 4 U, AM) Rosencrantz Guildenstern from Canada writes: As practiced in modern times, poetry is a discredited means of (supposedly)...
The Graveyard, December 25, 2009
...Don Patterson Best First Collection: The Striped World by Emma Jones Best Single Poem: At Roane Head by Robin Robertson Golden Pen of Freedom Award Najam Sethi ( Friday Times & Daily News ; Pakistan) Griffin Poetry Prize Awards announcement Canadian...
Survival of the Book, December 16, 2009
...Ada Limon West Wind, by Mary Oliver Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, by August Kleinzahler Swithering, by Robin Robertson A Painted Field, by Robin Robertson What the Living Do, by Marie Howe Given Sugar, Given Salt, by Jane Hirshfield The October Palace,...
Both Eyes Book Blog, November 18, 2009
...as the best vegan cookbooks, for those who have gotten this far. Anything by Isa Chandra Moskovitz, Robin Robertson, or Dreena Burton, especially including (in order) Vegan With a Vengeance , Vegan Planet , and Vive Le Vegan . The Millennium...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed, November 18, 2009
...Books and drift out three minutes later, dashing toward track 42 with Marie Ponsot or Leonard Cohen or Robin Robertson or Ada Limón under my arm. There are times when my purchases are random; there are times when they're linked to some curious mental...
Surroundings, October 6, 2009
...shortlist for Best Poem (5 men, 1 woman): Paul Farley – Moles Michael Longley – Visiting Stanley Kunitz Robin Robertson - At Roane Road Elizabeth Speller – Finistere George Szirtes – Song CK Williams - Either/Or Now, I have read...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, September 16, 2009
...impulses sometimes for the length of the poem or even for the length of a few lines: Take Robin Robertson's " Artichoke " and its description of "the stub-root aching in its oil". The restrained, muscular poem from his collection A Painted Field shows us...
KEEPER OF THE SNAILS, August 5, 2009
...The legend of Liz and Joe by John Murray but then, unfortunately, managed to finish Mortification edited by Robin Robertson. This was 'unfortunate' because the book finished with an anecdote by Niall Griffiths - and his moment of authorly mortification...
Genre Fiction, April 26, 2009
...Good Books’ books filled with Japanese-inspired sewing projects. * Vegan.com is giving away three signed copies of Robin Robertson’s cookbook, Vegan Fire & Spice: 200 Sultry and Savory Global Recipes . * Reader Views gives out copies of a handful...
Shelf Elf: read, write, rave., April 3, 2009
...feel like I’ve had a little country escape. Beautiful. What the Horses See at Night - by Robin Robertson When the day-birds have settled in their creaking trees, the doors of the forest open for the flitting drift of deer among the bright croziers of...
