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A reading of his poems

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 6.30PM

Speaker(s): Peter Robinson

There are "strong poets", then there are the "curiously strong"...like Peter Robinson

John Ashbery

Robinson is the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing shifts of atmosphere, momentary changes in the weather of the mind...

Adam Piette

Peter Robinson, the poet and translator, will give a reading of his poems. He is the author of several outstanding volumes of poetry including, This Other Life, Entertaining Fates, Lost and Found, and About Time Too. He has also translated the works of Luciano Erba and Vittorio Sereni. Peter Robinson teaches a graduate course in Creative Writing at the University of Reading where he is a Professor of English. He is the subject of a Cambridge SALT Companion to Modern Poetry. He is a graduate of the University of York English Dept.

Location: Heslington Hall G/18