Foreigners, Drunks and Babies
If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Foreigners, Drunks and Babies, we hope this review might whet your appetites (details of the book can be found below the review). from Poets’ Tales by David...
View ArticleGlobal access to poetry
Peter Robinson was recently asked to offer a poem and some annotations to the Poetry Genius website. He chose his recent ‘From Amsterdam’, to be included in a new collection called Buried Music due in...
View ArticleNotes on Doing a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Reading
Dr Tom Phillips writes: Doing a creative writing Ph.D. hadn’t crossed my mind. Then I went to Albania. Standing outside a bank in the port-city of Durrës while three men in leather jackets aimed...
View ArticleBuried Music
Our Head of Department Peter Robinson’s new collection of poems, Buried Music, is officially published in January 2015. Click the image to buy online: He’ll be reading from it at the Swedenborg Hall,...
View ArticleA creative writing event – open to all
You are invited to a Creative Writing at Reading Event. Shara McCallum and Peter Robinson will read from their work at 6 o’clock on Monday 9th Feb. in HUMSS 125, Whiteknights Campus. The event is free...
View ArticleFor Simon
The current issue of English: The Journal of the English Association (Vol. 64 No. 245, Summer 2015) contains an obituary for Simon Dentith by Prof. Helen Wilcox, of the University of Bangor. It is...
View ArticleDepartment of English Literature Undergraduate Award Ceremony
Professor Peter Robinson writes: It was a great pleasure, one of my final duties as outgoing Head of Department for English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages, to present The...
View ArticlePeter Robinson’s latest publication: The Draft Will
Much of it composed during Peter’s eighteen years living in Japan, The Draft Will brings together a selection of his experiments with the prose poem and an extended sequence exploring a mystery in the...
View ArticleSeptember in the Rain
Peter Robinson’s September in the Rain: A Novel is published today, the first of September 2016. For the two young people found out in the rain one September night nothing can ever be the same again…...
View ArticlePia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson read from their work – all welcome!
Poetry Reading by Pia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson 6 pm Wednesday 15 February HumSS 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Admission is FREE. All are WELCOME. There will be REFRESHMENTS. As part...
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