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A-Z » Robin Robertson Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. His first book, A Painted Field, won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Times Literary Supplement, and he is represented in a number of anthologies, including New British Poetry (Paterson & Simic), The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (Crawford & Imlah), and Penguin Modern Poets 13 (with Michael Hofmann & Michael Longley). His second collection, Slow Air, was published by Picador in February 2002. The following year he edited Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame (Fourth Estate). In 2004 he was chosen as one of the twenty Next Generation Poets, and he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
› Robin Robertson featured in the Next Generation promotion › Simon Armitage introduces Next Generation poets in The Guardian An old favourite A new favourite Robin Robertson, 2004 from Dumb Show, With Candles Now the night has fallen, Edinburgh comes alight To the east, the folding sea has drowned Robin Robertson © 1997 This extract comes from a sequence called Camera Obscura, and combines contemporary Edinburgh with the life of the pioneering photographer David Octavius Hill. |
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