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Suite101.com, August 11, 2010
...by Leah DouglasVegan on the Cheap: Great Recipes and Simple Strategies that Save You Time and Money by Robin Robertson Other Pillsbury related cookbooks include: Pillsbury Best Cookies Cookbook by Pillsbury EditorsPillsbury Fast & Healthy Cookbook:...
CBC, July 27, 2010
...and a prize for a single poem. In the competition for the main prize two previous winners — Robin Robertson and Jo Shapcott — are competing with Nobel laureate Seamus Henry. The nominees are: Seamus Heaney, Human Chain. Lachlan Mackinnon, Small...
Lovereading, July 23, 2010
...been running since 1992 with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary works. His main rival is Robin Robertson who has won the previous three awards. The judging panel consists of chairman Ruth Padel, poet and columnist Hugo Williams, performance...
Herald Scotland, July 21, 2010
...poets are in the running for one of the most prestigious prizes in UK poetry. Lachlan Mackinnon and Robin Robertson have been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for poetry, worth £10,000. They face competition from a formidable shortlist that includes...
Bookseller, July 21, 2010
...with poets on the list for the first time. Seamus Heaney has been nominated for the prize alongside Robin Robertson, previous winner of all three Forward Prizes.Poet and author Ruth Padel is chair of the judges, with poet and columnist Hugo Williams,...
Guardian.co.uk, July 20, 2010
...missed out to a strong lineup for one of the UK's top poetry prizes, including former winners Robin Robertson, shortlisted for his mythology-soaked The Wrecking Light, and Jo Shapcott, picked for her collection Of Mutability, written after her breast...
BBC, July 20, 2010
...19th Forward Prize for Poetry. Heaney is up for best collection with Human Chain, along with previous winners Robin Robertson and Jo Shapcott. Lachlan Mackinnon, Sinead Morrissey and Fiona Sampson have been shortlisted for the first time. Judges chairman...
Telegraph, July 17, 2010
...a second home are famously terrible. Theyre like rohipnol for the intellect. In fact, when the Scottish poet Robin Robertson edited a collection of essays entitled Mortification: Writers Stories of Their Public Shame, there was a preponderance from as...
Associated Content, July 6, 2010
...The Quintessential Vegan Recipe Tome Seasoned and aspiring vegans rejoice! With Robin Robertson's enormous vegan cookbook, 1,000 Vegan Recipes, there is little reason to ever worry about what to eat again. Robertson's tome is packed with recipes for every...
Associated Content, June 21, 2010
...stands out from the crowd. With over 200 recipes from around the world, Vegan Fire & Spice by Robin Robertson is one of those exceptional cookbooks. Robertson is a vegan chef with over twenty-five years of culinary experience and has written numerous...
Business & Leadership, June 6, 2010
...washosted by Scott Griffin, founder of the prize, and trustees Margaret Atwood, Carolyn Forché, Robert Haas, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and David Young. The American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was also honoured with the 2010 Lifetime...
Guardian.co.uk, May 26, 2010
...poetry editor. Picador is home to poets including Carol Ann Duffy, Glyn Maxwell, the late Peter Porter and Robin Robertson."Prizes are great, of course, but what new poets want more than anything else is simply publication. That's our prize, and we're...
Herald Scotland, April 27, 2010
...his early thirties when Morvern Callar was published by Jonathan Cape with the help of a “nurturing” editor, Robin Robertson, with whom Warner shared a mutual trust. “Until then, I thought you had to go to Oxford or Cambridge and speak German and...
Herald Scotland, April 26, 2010
...End Final is published by Faber, �9.99. Hugo Williams is reading at the Word Festival, Aberdeen, with Robin Robertson on May 15 at 4pm. Visit www.abdn.ac.uk/word/programme...
Galway Independent, March 26, 2010
...Other names featured in this year's programme include Joyce Carol Oates, Ian Rankin, Colum McCann, Claire Keegan, Robin Robertson, Marina Carr, Olivia O'Leary, Richard Bausch, Gerard Smyth, Kate Pullinger, Tom Kilroy, Joseph O'Connor, Nuala Ní...
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
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,...
Surroundings, August 5, 2010
...to explain the betting odds, for anyone who fancies a flutter: 9/4 Lachlan MacKinnon 5/2 Sinead Morrissey 3/1 Robin Robertson 4/1 Seamus Heaney 6/1 Jo Shapcott 8/1 Fiona Sampson Finally, Williams has a go at publishers and emerging poets. There were 147...
One Frugal Foodie, July 28, 2010
...flavor and the global theme keeps things interesting and unique. My Review : I’ve yet to meet a Robin Robertson recipe I didn’t like. Sample Recipe : Enjoy this recipe for Close to Callaloo. Enter to win these cookbooks NOW: 1st Entry –...
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...
