matt robinson

Part extended love song to a city and part meditation on those who live there, this collection—consisting primarily of one long poem and a selection of shorter pieces—offers a stop-and-start lyrical tour of Halifax, eastern Canada's largest urban center.

Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region’s finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more. The earlier poetry renaissance began in 1945, with the establishment of The Fiddlehead magazine …

Matt Robinson's second collection of poetry catalogues the bits and pieces, the art and artefacts, the acts and atrocities that make up the living of lives. In poems whose images and metaphors weave into and around each other, how we play at it: a list articulates and exposes -- at times even interrogates -- how it is we "play" about our days. Grie …

Each poem in this collection is a self-contained vessel in which a distinct bit of Canada's national game of hockey?a player or a fight, a save or a goal, an injury or a regret?is preserved.