Matt Robinson (poet) explained

Matt Robinson
Birth Date:24 February 1974
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nationality: Canada
Alma Mater:St. Mary’s University
Mount Saint Vincent University
University of New Brunswick
Website:http://www.mattrobinsonpoet.wordpress.com

Matt Robinson (born 1974) is a Canadian poet born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

His first collection, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (2000),[1] was published by Toronto's Insomniac Press, and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. Subsequent collections, published by Toronto's ECW Press, include how we play at it: a list (2002),[2] no cage contains a stare that well (2005),[3] and Against the Hard Angle (2010).[4] In addition to his full-length collections, he has also published five chapbooks: tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, 2004),[5] Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse Press, 2009),[6] a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau Press, 2013),[7] which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award,[8] The Telephone Game (Baseline Press, 2017),[9] and Against (Gaspereau Press, 2018).[10] Robinson's, Some Night's It's Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work,[11] was published by Kentville, NS's awarding-winning Gaspereau Press in Fall 2016 and his new collection, Tangled & Cleft, was released by Gaspereau Press in Fall 2021.[12]

Robinson's poems have won a number of awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize,[13] Grain Magazine's Prose Poem Award, and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize.[14] He has also received the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year Award.

His poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies, including The New Canon,[15] Breathing Fire 2,[16] Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada,[17] Exact Fare Only 2, and Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land, and been featured in programs such as the Halifax Regional Municipality's Art in Public Places and Poetry in Motion initiatives.[18] His poem ‘grand parade, halifax’ is publicly featured in Halifax's Grand Parade Square,[19] and his poem ‘the grain elevators’ was produced as a cinepoem (in collaboration with filmmaker Megan Wennberg) as a part of the A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry project[20] sponsored by AFCOOP and WFNS.

Robinson holds a BA and a BSc from Saint Mary's University, a BEd from Mount Saint Vincent University, and an MA from the University of New Brunswick. He is a graduate of Halifax's J. L. Ilsley High School.

Robinson worked at Dalhousie University as a Residence Life Manager (in Howe Hall) from 2007 to 2012.[21] [22] He currently serves as Director - Housing & Conference Services at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, NS.[23]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking. 9781897414712. Robinson. Matt. 2009. Insomniac Press .
  2. Web site: How We Play at It: A List, by Matt Robinson . 2011-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110724224805/http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=10&article=235&cat=3 . 2011-07-24 .
  3. Web site: Broken Pencil: No cage contains a stare that well . 2011-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101213124453/http://brokenpencil.com/view.php?id=5059 . 2010-12-13 .
  4. Web site: Brian Palmu: Matt robinson's Against the Hard Angle; Kate Hall's the Certainty Dream. 20 December 2010.
  5. Web site: Frog Hollow Press. www.froghollowpress.com. 2019-05-13.
  6. Web site:

    Greenboathouse Press

    . www.greenboathouse.com. 2019-05-13.
  7. Web site: Gaspereau Press - Book Information. www.gaspereau.com. 2019-05-13.
  8. Web site: bpNichol Chapbook Award shortlist and Doubling of Award Purse Meet The Presses . meetthepresses.wordpress.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141210090111/http://meetthepresses.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/bpnichol-chapbook-award-shortlist-and-doubling-of-award-purse/ . 2014-12-10.
  9. Web site: The Telephone Game // Matt Robinson // 2017. Baseline Press. en-US. 2019-05-13.
  10. Web site: Gaspereau Press - Book Information. www.gaspereau.com. 2019-05-13.
  11. Web site: Gaspereau Press - Book Information.
  12. Web site: Matt Robinson on Instagram: "Contract's signed; it's official. Really excited to be working on a new #poetry collection (Due out in Fall 2016) with Andrew & the folks at #GaspereauPress..." .
  13. Web site: Petra Kenney Poetry Competition . 2011-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820163714/http://www.petrapoetrycompetition.co.uk/previous_winners/previouswinners_page2.htm . 2008-08-20 .
  14. Web site: The Malahat Review . 2011-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203205734/http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/long_poem_prize/2009_winner.html . 2010-12-03 .
  15. Web site: Starnino, Carmine . 9781550652086 - The New Canon An Anthology of Canadian Poetry by Carmine Starnino . eCampus.com . 2006-04-01 . 2022-08-17.
  16. Web site: Harbour Publishing . www.harbourpublishing.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060511070327/http://harbourpublishing.com/excerpt/BreathingFire2/734 . 2006-05-11.
  17. Book: 978-0864923134. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada . Compton . Anne . 2002 . Goose Lane Editions .
  18. Web site: "Home" (2019) – Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. 21 October 2020 . 2021-06-26. en-CA.
  19. Web site: Matt Robinson gets poetic in Grand Parade | Art Attack . 2011-01-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120403041353/http://www.thecoast.ca/ArtAttack/archives/2009/08/14/matt-robinsons-gets-poetic-in-grand-parade . 2012-04-03 .
  20. http://archive-ca.com/page/1524905/2013-02-28/http://afcoop.ca/programs-and-training/a-certain-openness-the-filming-of-poetry/
  21. Web site: Ancillary Services.
  22. Web site: Dal News.
  23. Web site: SMTW 07-11-12 . www.smu.ca . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140810094645/http://www.smu.ca/thisweek/SMTW07-11-12.html . 2014-08-10.

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