Peter Robinson (poet)
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Peter Robinson (born 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. With the exception of five years, he grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from York University in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine Perfect Bound and helped organize several Cambridge International Poetry Festivals.
In the following decade he co-edited Numbers and was advisor to the 1988 Poetry International at the South Bank Centre, London. After teaching for the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at the University of Cambridge, he has held various posts in Japan. He nows teaches English Literature and English as a second language at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
[edit] Published works
- Overdrawn Account (Many Press: 1980)
- This Other Life (Carcanet: 1988)
- Entertaining Fates (Carcanet: 1992)
- Lost and Found (Carcanet: 1997)
- About Time Too (Carcanet: 2001)
In addition, he has edited the poems of Adrian Stokes, a collection of essays on Geoffrey Hill, a co-edited collection on Roy Fisher, and an anthology, Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets and a City (Liverpool University Press: 1996). His translations of contemporary Italian poetry include Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni (Anvil: 1990). He has also published three critical books, In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets, Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen and Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situation.
A book-length poem, There are Avenues, about his home city of Liverpool, will be published in February 2006 by The Brodie Press.
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