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Pia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson read from their work – all welcome!

Poetry Reading by Pia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson 6 pm Wednesday 15 February HumSS 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Admission is FREE. All are WELCOME. There will be REFRESHMENTS. As part of her Walking over the Water Tour, which … Continue reading

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September in the Rain

Peter Robinson’s September in the Rain: A Novel is published today, the first of September 2016. For the two young people found out in the rain one September night nothing can ever be the same again… Together through university, Mary … Continue reading

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Peter Robinson’s latest publication: The Draft Will

Much of it composed during Peter’s eighteen years living in Japan, The Draft Will brings together a selection of his experiments with the prose poem and an extended sequence exploring a mystery in the poet’s family background. To these has been added a … Continue reading

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Department of English Literature Undergraduate Award Ceremony

 Professor Peter Robinson writes: It was a great pleasure, one of my final duties as outgoing Head of Department for English Literature in the School of Literature and Languages, to present The Margaret Seymour and Percy Sharman Prize for Literature, … Continue reading

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For Simon

The current issue of English: The Journal of the English Association (Vol. 64 No. 245, Summer 2015) contains an obituary for Simon Dentith by Prof. Helen Wilcox, of the University of Bangor. It is followed by ‘Weather Events‘, a poem in … Continue reading

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A creative writing event – open to all

You are invited to a Creative Writing at Reading Event. Shara McCallum and Peter Robinson will read from their work at 6 o’clock on Monday 9th Feb. in HUMSS 125, Whiteknights Campus. The event is free and open to all. … Continue reading

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Buried Music

Our Head of Department Peter Robinson’s new collection of poems, Buried Music, is officially published in January 2015. Click the image to buy online:   He’ll be reading from it at the Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH at 7:30 on Tuesday … Continue reading

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Notes on Doing a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Reading

Dr Tom Phillips writes: Doing a creative writing Ph.D. hadn’t crossed my mind. Then I went to Albania. Standing outside a bank in the port-city of Durrës while three men in leather jackets aimed Kalashnikovs at my wife and children … Continue reading

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Global access to poetry

Peter Robinson was recently asked to offer a poem and some annotations to the Poetry Genius website. He chose his recent ‘From Amsterdam’, to be included in a new collection called Buried Music due in early 2015. There are explanatory comments, illustrative images, … Continue reading

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Foreigners, Drunks and Babies

If you haven’t yet ordered your copy of Foreigners, Drunks and Babies, we hope this review might whet your appetites (details of the book can be found below the review).  from Poets’ Tales by David Cooke A poet, translator and editor, Peter Robinson … Continue reading

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