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The Independent, May 12, 2012
..."sudden snatch of snow/... not as warning but as wonder". The near-death experiences of Elaine Feinstein (1957) and Robin Robertson (1986) are intense and powerful. But in this cleverly-conceived scrapbook, there is certainly one stunning poem. Louche as...
The Scotsman, April 28, 2012
...one more English Civil War / That someone, sometime – you, perhaps – will have to answer for”. Robin Robertson’s The Halving, about a heart operation, is gothic and scientific, a shuddersome self-elegy. Don Paterson’s poem, sardonically...
Stornoway Gazette, April 26, 2012
...literary crime writer Louise Welsh, top Scots writer Alan Spence reading from his novel-in-progress, and award winning poet Robin Robertson – alongside Scottish Opera with a Little Bit of Tosca and so much more at the Ullapool Book Festival. Tickets...
The Scotsman, April 21, 2012
...Britain. There are excellent evocations of rural Wales (in Cynan Jones’ The Dig), of Scotland in 1964 in Robin Robertson’s poem named after that year, of Ireland under British rule – a disappointing, tonally uneven, extract from Mario Vargas...
North Star, April 10, 2012
...Alistair MacLeod was a guest at Ullapool Book Festival in 2009. Other names include poets John Burnside and Robin Robertson, novelist Karin Altenberg, Ron Ferguson, land reform campaigner Andy Wightman, and Mairi Hedderwick The event, now in its eighth...
The Scotsman, April 6, 2012
...Black Cat Bone, which won both of Britain’s top poetry prizes last year. The programme also includes Robin Robertson, Louise Welsh, Sue Peebles, Andy Wightman, Martin McIntyre, a return visit of Scottish Opera and a Ceilidh for Aonghas to celebrate...
Stornoway Gazette, March 20, 2012
...shortlisted for the Costa best novel for 2011 with A Summer of Drowning. Another eminent poet appearing is Robin Robertson whose fourth collection of poetry, The Wrecking Light, was published in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Costa, the Eliot and the...
Web Newswire, February 29, 2012
...of spaying and neutering in creating compassionate communities where no healthy or treatable animal loses his life,” said Robin Robertson Starr, chief executive officer of the Richmond SPCA. “We have seen firsthand how access to affordable...
Reading Eagle, February 18, 2012
...has voted 7-0 to give property owners the option of paying their school tax in installments. Business Manager Robin Robertson had previously explained that a new law requires installment plans to be offered to businesses with 50 or fewer employees. It...
The Atlantic Wire, February 13, 2012
...the Booker prize in 1991 for his novel The Famished Road , is hopping mad at his former editor Robin Robertson, who told The Telegraph in an interview he once had to "rewrite a book of Ben Okri’s written in Lagos patois." The book in question is Okri...
Guardian.co.uk, February 13, 2012
...Okri accuses former editor Robin Robertson of 'exaggerating his own importance' after Robertson claimed that he 'redid' sections of the author's dialogue in a 1988 short story collection The Booker prize-winning author Ben Okri...
Telegraph, February 11, 2012
...the hard-won achievement of others". The literary row, just the latest between authors and editors, broke out after Robin Robertson, 58, spoke to the Daily Telegraph earlier this year in an article about poetry. During the article, Mr Robertson, a...
Telegraph, February 11, 2012
...the hard-won achievement of others". The literary row, just the latest between authors and editors, broke out after Robin Robertson, 58, spoke to the Daily Telegraph earlier this year in an article about poetry. During the article, Mr Robertson, a...
Richmond Times Dispatch, February 10, 2012
...brutal and unethical practice that is a stain on the honor of the state of Virginia," said Robin Robertson Starr, the Richmond SPCA's chief executive officer Pen supporters called the sport a family-friendly activity designed to train dogs, not kill...
