Staff Profile:Professor Peter Robinson

Name:

Professor Peter Robinson

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Within the department I convene modules in:

• The Making of the Contemporary: British Poetry 1950-2000
• Visions and Revisions: Poets at Work
• Creative Writing and Critical Practice
• Contemporary Poetry (MA)
• I have also contributed to courses in:
• Modernism and Modern Poetry
• Modernity, Crisis and Narrative Fiction
• Languages of Literature

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interest is the writing, publishing, and reception of twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, and poetry in translation. I have also developed a research interest in those areas I teach, particularly modernist poetry. I continue to have a strong interest in poetry from the entire canon of literature in English. I am happy to direct post-graduate and post-doctoral research in the area of my primary research interest, and I expect to be convening an MA in Publishing, Reception, and Research for Creative Writers from autumn 2009.

Research groups / Centres:

The Modern and Contemporary Centre for Graduate Research in Literature

Publications:

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

Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (Oxford, 2002)

The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba (Princeton, 2007)

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

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

I have also published

The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001-2006 (Shearsman, 2008)

Untitled Deeds: Aphorisms and Prose Poems (Salt, 2004)

Selected Poems 1976-2001 (Carcanet, 2003)

There is a collection of essays on my work

The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson ed. Adam Piette and Katy Price (Salt, 2007)

My website is here: http://web.mac.com/pjerobinson/iWeb/Site/Top.html

My wikipedia entry is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(poet)