ROBIN ROBERTSON
Weds 12th March, 6.15
Trinity Old Combination Room
Robin Robertson’s work has been described as pitching ‘the power and
wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of the human’.
Although human presence is frequently surreal and dislocated, it remains
at the heart of his work. Robertson is a poet who finds song in silence,
hope in a retreat into the ‘homelessness’ of the wild, all in a
meticulously exact language, described as “simultaneously spare and
ample”.
He is the first poet to have won all three categories in the Forward
Prize: Best First Collection for his 1997 debut A Painted Field, Best
Collection for Swithering in 2006, and Best Single Poem for ‘At Roane
Head’ from 2010’s The Wrecking Light. His most recent collection is Hill
of Doors, described by The Guardian as ‘a collection of flinty beauty’.
He lives in London and is fiction and poetry editor for Jonathan Cape.