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Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, England in 1953. He grew up in Liverpool and went to university at York and Cambridge. During the 1970s and 1980s he taught for various institutions, edited two poetry magazines, Perfect Bound and Numbers, and was involved in organizing a number of poetry festivals. Since 1989 he has taught English literature in Japan, first at Kyoto University, then for fourteen years at Tohoku University, Sendai, and now once more in Kyoto. From April 2007 he will be a professor of English Literature at the University of Reading (UK). He is married with two daughters.
Website: http://charles.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/robinson/index.html

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Jacket 16 - New Zealand Feature - Peter Robinson reviews Bill Manhire

Jacket 20 - Nate Dorward talks to Peter Robinson about Perfect Bound magazine, 1976–1979

Jacket 20 - Various authors - samples of work from Perfect Bound magazine 1976–1979

Peter Robinson reviews Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery (from Perfect Bound magazine, Cambridge, Number 1, 1976.)

Peter Robinson: ‘Looking Up’

Peter Robinson, ‘Pressure Cooker Noise’ and ‘Living in the Workroom’

Jacket 25 - Peter Robinson in conversation with Steve Clark

Jacket 25 - Peter Robinson - Six Poems

Jacket 28 - October 2005 - Peter Robinson: from ‘Other Trespasses’

Jacket 29 - April 2006 - Luciano Erba: Twelve poems from Remi in barca [Shipping the Oars]

Poetry

Lost and Found (Carcanet, 1997)

About Time Too (Carcanet, 2001)

Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2003)

Ghost Characters (Shoestring, 2006)

There are Avenues (Brodie, 2006)

Prose

Untitled Deeds (Salt, 2004)

Translations

The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (Worple, 2002)

The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba (Princeton, 2006)

Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni (Chicago, 2006) with Marcus Perryman

Criticism

Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations (Oxford, 2005)

Interviews

Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Shearsman, 2006)

Editor

Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets and a City (Liverpool, 1996)

The Thing about Roy Fisher: Essays on his Work (Liverpool, 2000) with John Kerrigan

Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute (Shoestring, 2005)

Secondary

Salt Companion to Peter Robinson ed. Adam Piette and Katy Price (Salt, 2006)

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