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Name
  
Robin Robertson

Role
  
Poet

Awards
  
E. M. Forster Award


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Books
  
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Robin Robertson, FRSL (born in Scone, Perthshire 1955) is a Scottish poet.

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Biography

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Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and Warburg, he became poetry and fiction editor at Jonathan Cape.

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Robertson's poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and is represented in many anthologies. In 2004, he edited Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame, which collects seventy commissioned pieces by international authors. In 2006 he published The Deleted World, new versions of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, and in 2008 a new translation of Medea, which has been dramatised for stage and radio. Robertson was a trustee of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry (and is now a trustee emeritus).

Awards

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Robertson's first volume of poetry, A Painted Field, won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Slow Air followed in 2002, and his third book, Swithering, was published in 2006, winning the Forward Prize for Best Collection. In 2004, Robertson received the E. M. Forster Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature He completed the set of Forward Prizes in 2009 when "At Roane Head" won the award for Best Single Poem. This poem is included in his fourth collection, The Wrecking Light (2010), a volume shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2013 he was honorably awarded the international, German Petrarca-Preis, sharing it with Adonis. In 2013, his book Hill of Doors was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Book Awards (Poetry).

Poetry collections

  • A Painted Field Picador, 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-35059-4; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999, ISBN 978-0-15-600647-7
  • Slow Air, Harcourt, 2002, ISBN 978-0-15-100746-2
  • (editor) Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-075092-3. 
  • Swithering. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. ISBN 978-0-15-603199-8. 
  • Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World Enitharmon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-904634-51-5
  • Euripides, Medea, Random House, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4070-1399-2
  • The Wrecking Light. Picador. 2010. ISBN 978-0-330-51548-1. 
  • Hill of Doors, Picador, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4472-3154-7
  • Sailing the Forest, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-25534-3
  • Euripides, Bacchae, Harper Collins, 2014, ISBN 978-0-0623-1966-1

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