matt robinson – Poet – Halifax, NS

'Against the Hard Angle' (ECW, 2010) is matt robinson’s most recent publication.

Other collections include 'no cage contains a stare that well' (ECW, 2005), a full-length volume of hockey poems, 'A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking' (Insomniac, 2000), and 'how we play at it: a list' (ECW, 2002), as well as chapbooks from Greenboathouse Press (in 2009) and Frog Hollow Press (in 2004).

Robinson’s poems have won awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize; they have also appeared in numerous anthologies and have been featured in the HRM’s Art in Public Places initiative.

Originally born in Halifax, NS, robinson lived in Fredericton, NB and worked at the UNB for a number of years. He currently lives in Halifax, NS, and works as a Res Life Manager with Dalhousie.