Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953, full name: Peter John Edgley Robinson) is a British

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

born in

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

Life and career

Born Salford, Lancashire, the son of an Anglican curate and geography teacher, Peter Robinson grew up, with the exception of five years spent in Wigan (1962-1967), in poor urban parishes of north and south

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

. He graduated from the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine ''Perfect Bound'' and helped organise several international

Cambridge Poetry Festival The Cambridge Poetry Festival, founded by Richard Berengarten (also known as Richard Burns), was an international biennale for poetry held in Cambridge, England, between 1975–1985. The festival was founded in an attempt to combine as many aspe ...

s between 1977 and 1985, acting as festival coordinator in 1979. He was awarded a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of

Donald Davie Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley, ...

Roy Fisher Roy Fisher (11 June 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English poet and jazz pianist. His poetry shows an openness to both European and American modernist influences, while remaining grounded in the experience of living in the English Midlands. ...

and

Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Life After attending Longton High Sc ...

. Among the most decisive events for his creative life, a sexual assault in Italy upon his girlfriend in 1975 — which he witnessed at gunpoint — formed the material for some of the poems in ''This Other Life'' (1988) and provided the plot outline for ''September in the Rain'', a novel published in September 2016. During the 1980s he was one of the organisers of the exhibition ''Pound's Artists: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts in London, Paris and Italy'' at

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and the

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, co-edited the magazine ''Numbers'' and was advisor to the 1988 Poetry International at the

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. After teaching for the

University of Wales, Aberystwyth , mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment = ...

, and at the

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, he held various posts in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

including teaching

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and

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as a second language at

Tohoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National ...

Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, desig ...

from 1991 to 2005. He underwent a successful brain tumor operation in 1993. He married Ornella Trevisan in 1995 and they have two daughters. In 2007 he returned to the UK to take up a post as Professor of English and American literature at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

. There he founded Creative Writing at Reading and collaborated in its development into a full joint degree program with English Literature and a number of other arts subjects, to which an MA degree was added for the 2022-23 academic year. Robinson organised a centenary conference on the work of the poet

Bernard Spencer Charles Bernard Spencer (1909 – 1963) was an English poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeic ...

(1909–1963) which resulted in his editing a new collected edition in 2011, and helped found the Reading Poetry Festival (2013–17). He is poetry editor for

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, a poetry editor of

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and literary executor for the estates of the poets

(1930–2017) and Mairi MacInnes (1925–2017).

Critical reception

Peter Robinson's earliest published poetry received numerous notices, including one in which the poet and novelist

James Lasdun James Lasdun (born 1958) is an English novelist and poet. Life and career Lasdun was born in London, the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir Denys Lasdun. Lasdun has written four novels, including , a New York Times Notable Book, and ...

observed that ‘he ''is'' a poet, and one with a sensibility which, if attuned only to a somewhat limited range of experience, is unusually refined’ in ''Siting Fires'' 1 (1983). Eric Griffiths’ in ''PN Review'' 35 (1983), described Robinson as ‘in my judgement, the finest poet of his generation’. On the publication of ''This Other Life'' (1988) Martin Dodsworth in the ''Guardian'' (Friday 13 May 1988) described the book as ‘grave and deliberated…beautiful and mysterious too’. Rachel Billington singled it out in the ''Financial Times'' (20 Feb 1988), and it was named a ‘Book of the Year’ in the ''Sunday Telegraph'' (4 Dec 1988). Stephen Romer described it as ‘love poetry of an exemplary kind’ in the ''Times Literary Supplement'' (19 Aug 1988) and John Kerrigan found in it ‘a miracle of balance’ in the ''London Review of Books'' (13 Oct 1988). Four years later, Nicholas Tredell observed, of his first poems written from Japan, that 'he thus joins a line of expatriate poets which includes Empson and Enright. The challenges for such a poet are threefold: how to negotiate with cultural difference – an especially complex problem today, when Eurocentrism has been strongly challenged; how to relate to the world he has left; and how to distinguish himself from his poetic predecessors. Robinson meets these challenges with tact and skill.'

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

characterised his poetry as ‘curiously strong’ in ''PN Review'' (1993), while Peter Swaab, again in the ''TLS'' (4 Sept 1998) noted its ‘staying power’. James Keery articulated underlying themes in ‘Marred in a way you recognize’ in ''PN Review'' 126 (Mar-April 1999). The first appreciation in a critical study came with Sumie Okada's ‘A Sense of Being Misplaced’, ''Western Writers in Japan'' (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). Robinson's work continued to receive attention, and the publication of his ''Selected Poems'' (2003) prompted a number of reviews including a welcome by Patrick McGuinness in the ''Poetry Review'' (Winter 2005), a review in ''The Japan Times'' (20 Oct 2003) by David Burleigh, and one in Romanian by Catalin Ghita. His critical standing was underlined by ''The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson'', a collection of fourteen essays with a bibliography (1976–2006), edited by Adam Piette and Katy Price. The volume includes a preface by

in which he observes: ‘Thus the life-events don’t provide the driving force of the poems; rather they make up the terrain, a varied surface across which the poet travels, living his life but always exercising a strong disposition to make poems from somewhere close to everyday events. It’s as if he carries a listening device, alert for the moments when the tectonic plates of mental experience slide quietly one beneath another to create paradoxes and complexities that call for poems to be made. These are not the ordinary urgencies of autobiography, but they are the urgencies of new creations’ (p. 22). Responses to ''The Look of Goodbye'' include Ben Hickman's in ''Jacket'', and Tom Phillips’ in ''Eyewear'', while Ian Brinton features his observations on the art in ''Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). A review of ''The Returning Sky'' (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for the Spring quarter) in the Autumn 2012 issue of ''Poetry Review'' (102/3)described Robinson as 'a major English poet', and Peter Riley noticed that his 'poems exploit a paradox: the sense of meticulously careful writing which places the poet in complete control, reinforced by his access to formalities of metre and rhyme when he needs them, work to undermine his self-security, his sense of standing firmly on the ground.' His ''Collected Poems 1976-2016'' appeared in February 2017 and was noticed in a number of reviews including those by Ian Pople in ''The Manchester Review'' and Will May in ''Journal of Poetics Research''. More recently, his support for the remain side in the 2016 EU Referendum found poetic voice in ''Ravishing Europa'', and friendship with the painter

David Inshaw David Inshaw (born 21 March 1943 in Wednesfield, Staffordshire, England) is a British artist who sprang to public attention in 1973 when his painting '' The Badminton Game'' was exhibited at the ICA ''Summer Studio'' exhibition in London. ...

in ''Bonjour Mr Inshaw''. Individual poems by Peter Robinson have been translated into Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Romanian, and Spanish. Robinson's other writings have also received critical attention. The translations of

Vittorio Sereni Vittorio Sereni (27 July 1913 – 10 February 1983) was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th-century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its ...

, made in collaboration with Marcus Perryman, were described by

in ''The Independent'' (1990) as 'versions that possess an uncanny accuracy, true to the fragmented, self-communing, smoldering and combustible humanity of Sereni's work'. Choosing ''The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems'' (2002) as a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation,

Douglas Dunn Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University. Background Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Re ...

wrote that 'the range is eclectic without being scattered confusingly across too many languages and cultures. For me at least, much of this work is new' while Glyn Pursglove, reviewing the book in ''Acumen'', found that Robinson's 'attempted fidelity is not allowed to distort his own use of English and English verse and there is a great deal to admire and enjoy here. Indeed, one could wish the book a good deal longer.' John Welle recommended the translations of

Luciano Erba Luciano Erba (18 September 1922 – 3 August 2010) was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator. Life and career Born in Milan, in 1947 Erba graduated in French literature at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. A member of the so- ...

(2007) in a jacket comment as 'marvelously attuned … accurate, carefully crafted, and in harmony with the idiom and spirit of the originals.' They were awarded the 2008

John Florio Prize The John Florio Prize for Italian translation is awarded by the Society of Authors, with the co-sponsorship of the Italian Cultural Institute and Arts Council England. Named after the Tudor Anglo-Italian writer-translator John Florio, the prize wa ...

reviewed ''In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets'' (1992) in the ''London Review of Books'' noting that 'Robinson deserves every credit for forcing his way into the thickets.' ''Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen'' (2002) was found by Andrea Brady in ''Poetry Review'' to show 'The conviction, pleasures and gratitude of committed reading are evident in this affirmation of the poetic contract between readers and writers. 'Angela Leighton wrote for the ''Times Literary Supplement'' of ''Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations'' (2005) that 'Robinson has been a generous promoter of contemporary poetry for decades, and this collection of essays bears witness to his dedication and energy. He writes with an unformulaic enthusiasm, moving easily from biographical, political and poetic context to the nitty-gritty of close reading, while also striking an easy, readable tone'. Five years later, in the same journal, Justin Quinn found that ''Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible'' (2010) was 'Vigorously and wittily argued … an excellent and provocative contribution to a complex debate.' Reviewing ''Poetry & Money: A Speculation'' in ''Essays in Criticism'', Adrian Grafe wrote that 'One comes away from ''Poetry & Money'' not only stimulated (and sometimes taxed), but above all glad and grateful to have encountered such unfailing enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the art of poetry.' Robinson has published a selection of aphorisms called ''Spirits of the Stair'' in 2009, ''Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories'' in 2013, a collection of prose poetry and memoirs entitled ''The Draft Will'' (2015) and a novel, ''September in the Rain'' in 2016. His fiction has been noticed, with David Cooke writing in ''The London Magazine'' that the collection of short stories is 'an impressive body of work that deserves to gain a wider readership', while Paula Byrne wrote that September in the Rain'' is a novel of extraordinary beauty and courage', Jonathan Coe found in it 'a kind of redemption thanks to the tone or rueful, quizzical honesty', and Giles Foden saw it as 'a triumph of style, its sentences being assayed with a poet's feeling for the weight of each word.' Ian Brinton described it on his ''Tears in the Fence'' blog for 29 August 2016 as 'a stunningly moving novel'. ''Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work'' appeared in October 2021 edited by Tom Phillips and with chapters on many aspects of his writings by Ian Brinton, Peter Carpenter, Tony Crowley, Martin Dodsworth, Andrew Houwen, Miki Iwata, James Peake, Piers Pennington, Adam Piette, Elaine Randell, Anna Saroldi, Matthew Sperling and Alison Stone, with an up-to-date Bibliography by Derek Slade.

Primary bibliography

(organized under the following sub-headings)

Poetry

*''The Benefit Forms'' (Lobby Press: 1978) *''Going Out to Vote'' (Many Press: 1978) *''Overdrawn Account'' (Many Press: 1980) *''Anaglypta'' (Many Press: 1985) *''This Other Life'' (Carcanet: 1988) Winner of the

Cheltenham Prize The Cheltenham Prize is awarded at the England, English Cheltenham Literature Festival to the author of any book published in the relevant year which "has received less acclaim than it deserved". Past winners *1979: Angela Carter for ''The Blood ...

*''More about the Weather'' (Robert Jones: 1989) (hardback) (paperback) *''Entertaining Fates'' (Carcanet: 1992) *''Leaf-Viewing'' (Robert Jones: 1992) *''Lost and Found'' (Carcanet: 1997) *''Via Sauro Variations'' (Ridgeback: 1999) *''Anywhere You Like'' (Pine Wave: 2000) *''About Time Too'' (Carcanet: 2001) *''Selected Poems 1976-2001'' (Carcanet: 2003) *''Ghost Characters'' (Shoestring: 2006) *''There are Avenues'' (Brodie: 2006) *''The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006'' (Shearsman Books: 2008) *''Ekphrastic Marriage'' (Pine Wave Press: 2009) with artworks by Andrew McDonald *''English Nettles and Other Poems'' (Two Rivers Press: 2010) illustrated by Sally Castle (hardback)and second, revised edition (Two Rivers Press: 2022) (paperback) *''The Returning Sky'' (Shearsman Books: 2012) Poetry Book Society Recommendation *''Like the Living End'' (Worple Press: 2013) *''Buried Music'' (Shearsman Books: 2015) *''An Epithalamium'' (Pine Wave Press: 2016) *''Collected Poems 1976-2016'' (Shearsman Books: 2017) *''Ravishing Europa'' (Worple Press: 2019) *''Bonjour Mr Inshaw: Poems by Peter Robinson, Paintings by David Inshaw'' (Two Rivers Press: 2020) *''Retrieved Attachments'' (Two Rivers Press: 2023)

Poetry in translation

*''After Chardin: Selected Poems'' translated by Takao Furukawa (Okayama: 1996) *''L'attaccapanni e altre poesie'' translated by Peter Robinson and Ornella Trevisan (Moretti e Vitali: 2005) *''Approach to Distance: Selected Poems from Japan'' translated with an introduction by Miki Iwata (Isobar Press: 2017)

Prose

*''Untitled Deeds'' (Salt Publishing: 2004) *''Spirits of the Stair: Selected Aphorisms'' (Shearsman Books: 2009) *''Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories'' (Two Rivers Press: 2013) *''The Draft Will'' (Isobar Press: 2015) *''September in the Rain: A Novel'' (Holland House Books: 2016) *''The Constitutionals: A Fiction'' (Two Rivers Press: 2019)

Translations

*''Six Poems by

Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experim ...

'' (Plain Wrapper: 1981) with Marcus Perryman *''The Disease of the Elm and Other Poems by

'' (The Many Press: 1981) with Marcus Perryman *''Selected Poems of

'' (Anvil: 1990) with Marcus Perryman *''When I was at my most beautiful and other poems by

Noriko Ibaragi was a Japanese poet, playwright, essayist, List of children's literature writers, children's literature writer, and translator. She is most well known for her poem, , written twelve years after the Surrender of Japan, Japanese defeat in WWII. In ...

'' (Skate: 1992) with Fumiko Horikawa *''The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems'' (Worple: 2002) Poetry Book Society Recommendation *''Selected Poetry and Prose of

'' (Chicago UP: 2006) with Marcus Perryman (hardback) and (Chicago UP: 2013) (paperback) *''The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of

'' (Princeton UP: 2007) Winner of the

(hardback) (paperback) *''Poems by

Antonia Pozzi Antonia Pozzi (13 February 1912 – 3 December 1938) was an Italian poet. Biography Antonia Pozzi was born in 1912 in Milan. She was the daughter of the lawyer Roberto Pozzi and Countess Lina Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana. She entered the ...

'' (One World Classics: 2011) *''Reports after the Fire: Selected Poems of Pietro De Marchi'' (Shearsman Books: 2022)

Criticism

*''In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets'' (Oxford University Press: 1992) *''Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen'' (Oxford University Press: 2002) *''Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations'' (Oxford University Press: 2005) *''Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible'' (Liverpool University Press: 2010) and (Liverpool University Press: 2021) (paperback) *''The Sound Sense of Poetry'' (Cambridge University Press: 2018) *''Poetry & Money: A Speculation'' (Liverpool University Press: 2020) *''The Personal Art: Essays, Reviews & Memoirs'' (Shearsman Books: 2021)

Interviews

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

As editor

*''With All the Views: Collected Poems of Adrian Stokes'' (Carcanet Press and Black Swan Books: 1981) *''

Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be ...

: Essays on his Work'' (Open University Press: 1985) *''Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets and a City'' (Liverpool University Press: 1996) *''The Thing About

: Critical Studies'' (Liverpool University Press: 2000) with John Kerrigan *''News for the Ear: A Homage to

'' (Stride Publications: 2000) with Robert Sheppard *''Mairi MacInnes: A Tribute'' (Shoestring Press: 2005) *''An Unofficial

'' (Shearsman Books: 2010) *''Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose of

'' (Bloodaxe Books: 2011) *''Reading Poetry: An Anthology'' (Two Rivers Press: 2011) *''A Mutual Friend: Poems for

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

'' (Two Rivers Press with the English Association: 2012) *''

: Essays on his Poetry & Life'' (Shearsman Books: 2012) *''The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry'' (Oxford University Press: 2013) and (Oxford University Press: 2016) paperback *''The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poetry'' (Two Rivers Press: 2014) with Adrian Blamires *

, ''An Easily Bewildered Child: Occasional Prose 1963-2013'' (Shearsman Books: 2014) *

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...

, ''Places and Other Poems'' chosen and with an afterword by Peter Robinson (Two Rivers Press: 2014) * F. T. Prince, ''Memoirs of Caravaggio'' (Perdika Press: 2015) *''The

Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...

of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Others'' (Two Rivers Press: 2015) with John Pilling *''Henry James Poems: A Keepsake of Samples'' (The British Library: 2016) *

, ''Slakki: New and Neglected Poems'' (Bloodaxe Books: 2016) *

, ''A Furnace'' (Flood Editions: 2018) *

, ''The Citizen and the Making of City'' (Bloodaxe Books: 2022)

Secondary bibliography

* ''The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson'' edited by Adam Piette and Katy Price (Salt Publishing: 2007) * 'Peter Robinson at Sixty' edited by Adam Piette, ''Blackbox Manifold'' no. 9 (2012): http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/index.html * Martin Dodsworth, "''Dormiveglia'' in Peter Robinson's Poetry", ''English: The Journal of the English Association'' vol. 67, no. 259 (Winter 2018): https://academic.oup.com/english/article-abstract/67/259/321/5238806 * ''Peter Robinson: A Portrait of his Work'' edited by Tom Phillips (Shearsman Books: 2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Peter 1953 births Writers from Salford Alumni of the University of York Academics of Aberystwyth University Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Reading Living people Academic staff of Tohoku University English male poets