matt robinson

Against the Hard Angle, Matt Robinson’s fourth collection of poetry, was released by ECW Press in 2010. Other collections include no cage contains a stare that well (ECW, 2005), a full-length volume of hockey poems, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac, 2000), which was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial and ReLit awards, and how we play at it: a list (ECW, 2002), as well as a number of limited edition chapbooks: a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau, 2013), Against the Hard Angle (Greenboathouse, 2009), and tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow, 2004). Robinson is currently at work on a new full-length collection.

Robinson’s poems have won a number of awards including the Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, Grain Magazine’s Prose Poem Award, and 2009’s 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 publically featured in Halifax’s Grand Parade Square), as well as AFCOOP’s collaborative “A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry” project, which lead to the creation of a cinepoem “The Grain Elevators”, which has been featured at both the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival and the Atlantic Film Festival.