Education
Saint Mary"s University. Mount Saint Vincent University. University of New Brunswick.
Saint Mary"s University. Mount Saint Vincent University. University of New Brunswick.
His subsequent collections, published by Toronto"s ECW Press, include how we play at it: a list (2002), no cage contains a stare that well (2005), and Against the Hard Angle (2010). In addition to his full-length collections, he has also published three chapbooks: tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, 2004), Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse Press, 2009), and a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau Press, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Robinson has a new collection of poems, Some Night"s lieutenant"s Entertainment.
Some Other Nights Just Work, forthcoming from Kentville, Nova Scotia"s awarding-winning Gaspereau Press in Fall 2016.
His poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies, including 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 publicly featured in Halifax’s Grand Parade Square, 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 sponsored by AFCOOP and World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Robinson holds a Bachelor and a Bachelor of Science from Saint Mary"s University, a Bachelor of Education from Mount Saint Vincent University, and an Master of Arts 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.
He currently serves as Director - Housing & Conference Services at Saint Mary"s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
His first collection, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (2000), was published by Toronto"s Insomniac Press, and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. Robinson’s poems have won a number of awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, Grain Magazine’s Prose Poem Award, and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. He has also received the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year Award.
