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Hearing Rilke quoted at the Co-op, an experience evoked in the title poem to Peter Robinson's latest collection, Buried Music, the poet continues his work of discovering poetry in everyday, anywhere places. It is as if, as Roy Fisher intuited, 'he carries a listening device, alert for the moments when the tectonic plates of mental experience slide quietly one beneath another to create paradoxes and complexities that call for poems to be made.' Prompted by varieties of losses - health, hopes, friends or relatives - his listening unearths a rhythmic contour from such opening cracks in the terrain.
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Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953, and grew up mainly in Liverpool. He co-edited the magazines 'Perfect Bound' and 'Numbers' while helping organize various Cambridge Poetry Festivals (1977-1985) and a Poetry International at the South Bank Centre (1988). His many volumes of poetry include a 'Selected Poems' (2003), 'The Look of Goodbye' (2008) and 'Like the Living End' (2013). 'Buried Music', his latest full collection, will be published in 2015. He was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for 'This Other Life (1988), while both 'The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems' (2002) and 'The Returning Sky' (2012) were recommendations of the Poetry Book Society, and 'The Greener Meadow: Selected Poems of Luciano Erba' (2007) received the John Florio Prize for translation from the Italian in 2008. Other publications include a collection of aphorisms, 'Spirits of the Stair' (2009), four volumes of literary criticism, the most recent being 'Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible' (2010), a collection of short fiction, 'Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories' (2013), various edited collections, anthologies, 'The Complete Poems, Translations & Selected Prose of Bernard Spencer' (2011) and 'The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry' (2013). His work is the subject of 'The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson', ed. Adam Piette and Katy Price (2007), and a new collection of essays on his writings edited by Tom Phillips is in preparation. The literary editor for Two Rivers Press, he is Head of Department and Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading.
