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Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Matt Robinson (poet)
- Matt Robinson (born 1974) is a Canadian poet born 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.
- 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 five chapbooks: tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, 2004), Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse Press, 2009), a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau Press, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, The Telephone Game (Baseline Press, 2017), and Against (Gaspereau Press, 2018).
- Robinson's most recent full-length collection of poems, Some Night's It's Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work, was published by Kentville, NS's awarding-winning Gaspereau Press in Fall 2016.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. 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 WFNS. Robinson holds a BA and a BSc from Saint Mary's University, a BEd from Mount Saint Vincent University, and an MA from the University of New Brunswick.
- He is a graduate of Halifax’s J.
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- 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, NS.
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