Robin Robertson has published numerous poetry collections with Picador Poetry. They include: A Painted Field (1997), winner of the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Slow Air (2002); Swithering (2006), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and winner of the 2006 Forward Prize for Best Collection; and The Wrecking Light (2010), also shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Hill of Doors, published 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2013. The Long Take (2018) won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; and was followed by Grimoire (2020). Sailing the Forest: Selected Poems was published in 2014. He was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland. After taking degrees in Scotland and Canada he moved to London to work in publishing, for Penguin, Secker & Warburg and Jonathan Cape. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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