matt robinson
Profile: Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse, 2009), a limited edition letter-pressed chapbook, is matt robinson’s most recent publication. His fourth full-length volume of poetry is forthcoming from ECW Press in Spring 2010. Previous 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), which was nominated for the Lampert and ReLit awards, and how we play at it: a list (ECW, 2002), as well as a limited edition chapbooks from Frog Hollow Press (in 2004). Robinson’s poems have won a number of awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize and this year’s Malahat Review Long Poem Prize; they have also appeared in anthologies such as The New Canon, Breathing Fire 2, Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, 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 initiative. His poem ‘grand parade, halifax’ is publically featured in Halifax’s Grand Parade Square. Originally born in Halifax, NS, robinson lived in Fredericton, NB and worked at the University of New Brunswick for a number of years. He currently lives in Halifax, NS, and works as a Residence Life Manager with Dalhousie University.
