Career
Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and Warburg, he became poetry and fiction editor at Jonathan Cape. Robertson"s poetry appears regularly in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and is represented in many anthologies.
In 2004, he edited Mortification: Writers" Stories of Their Public Shame, which collects seventy commissioned pieces by international authors.
In 2006 he published The Deleted World, new versions of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, and in 2008 a new translation of Medea, which has been dramatised for stage and radio. Robertson is a trustee of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry.