{"id":8339,"date":"2025-03-14T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8339"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:11:14","slug":"robin-robertson","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/robin-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Robertson has published numerous poetry collections with Picador Poetry. They include: <em>A Painted Field <\/em>(1997), winner of the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection; <em>Slow Air <\/em>(2002); <em>Swithering <\/em>(2006), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and winner of the 2006 Forward Prize for Best Collection; and <em>The Wrecking Light <\/em>(2010), also shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Costa Poetry Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. <em>Hill of Doors, <\/em>published 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2013. <em>The Long Take<\/em> (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 <em>Grimoire<\/em> (2020). <em>Sailing the Forest: Selected Poems<\/em> 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 &amp; Warburg and Jonathan Cape. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinrobertson.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.robinrobertson.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8709,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8339","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}