Robin Robertson

Robin Robertson is an award-winning poet, hailing from Scone, in Perthshire, but now living and working in London.

Robertson has written three collections of critically acclaimed poetry: A Painted Field, (winner of the 1997 Forward Poetry Prize and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award), Slow Air (2002), and most recently Swithering (2006), which was shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize, winner of the 2006 Forward Poetry Prize, and winner of the Scottish Arts Council Poetry Award.

As well as this illustrious catalogue of work, he has also compiled and edited Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame (2004), which is a collection of seventy commissioned pieces by international authors.

Robertson has also received the E. M. Forster Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award given annually to Irish or British writer to fund a period of travel around the United States.

In 2013 Robertson’s Hill of Doors was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.