MEDIA
Listen to an online interview from literary blog / website The Writer’s Cafe in which matt robinson chats about hockey, about poetry, and about his 2005 collection of hockey poems, no cage contains a stare that well (ECW Press), HERE: matt-robinson_no-cage-contains-a-stare-that-well.php
Read more in this online article by Arts Editor Sue Carter Flinn (posted on the website of Halifax alt-weekly The Coast) about matt robinson’s invovlement (along with local artist William Johnson) in the conception and creation of the inaugural inclusion of poetry in the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Art in Public Places Program (through the use of his poem ‘grand parade, halifax’ on a traffic control box in the city’s Grand Parade) HERE: matt-robinsons-gets-poetic-in-grand-parade
Read more in these articles (posted on Dalhousie University’s DalNews website and by The Chronicle Herald via ECW Press’s website) about matt robinson’s involvement with a nifty little sports / hockey literature class taught by Dal English Professor Dr. David McNeil both HERE: http://dalnews.dal.ca/2009/06/10/mattrobinson.html and HERE: http://www.ecwpress.com/reviews/no_cage_contains_stare_well_mentioned_chronicleherald_article_about_dalhousie_hockey_literat
The Malahat Review’s announcment of the winners of their 2009 Long Poem Prize (one of which is an earlier version of matt robinson’s long poem / suite, Against the Hard Angle) can be found HERE: http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/long_poem_prize/2009_winner.html
An online interview / Q&A, plus a poem (‘grain’) that appeared in an issue of Canadian Literature can be viewed HERE: http://www.canlit.ca/canlitpoets.php?page=poems&poemid=230
Audio of readings from the 6th Annual Poetry Weekend held October 2nd – 5th, 2009 at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton – including a reading by matt of poems from AtHA - can be found at the branta website HERE: http://www.gooselane.com/blog/2009/10/unb-poetry-weekend-audio/
Audio of readings from the Halifax launch of The Essential James Reaney (Brian Bartlett, Edior) Porcupine’s Quill, 2009) held February 10th, 2010 as a part of the Gallery Reading Series at The Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in Halifax, NS - including a reading of Reaney’s ‘The Gramaphone’ by matt, as well as readings of Reaney by other writers and poets including Brian Bartlett (a couple different pieces), Peter Norman (Klaxon), Tonya Gunvaldsen Klaassen (from A City in Greenland), David Rimmington (Antichrist as a Child), and Zachariah Wells (The Baby) - can be found at Zachariah Wells’ website HERE: http://zachariahwells.blogspot.com/2010/02/audio-essential-james-reaney-launch.html
Against the Hard Angle noted on SaltyInk.com as one of ‘Three Books of Poetry to Stick on Your Radar’ HERE: http://saltyink.com/2010/03/31/three-books-of-poetry-to-stick-on-your-radar/
Toronto poet and Insomniac Press editor Paul Vermeersch notes how cool he thinks ECW Press‘s Against the Hard Angle GoogleMap tie-in project is on his website right HERE: http://www.paulvermeersch.ca/2010/04/matt-robinsons-new-collection-invites.html
