Peter Robinson being interviewedInterviews

  • Making something of life (with Michael Bradshaw)
  • There has to be torque in poetic talk (with Marcus Perryman)

Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art

Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006

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Through frosted glass: Peter Robinson in conversation with Ian Sansom

Published in Oxford Poetry vol. 8 no. 1, summer 1994.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

The torque in poetic talk: Peter Robinson in conversation with Marcus Perryman

Published in The Animist 1998.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

Whatever serves the poem is right: Peter Robinson in conversation with Peter Swaab

Conducted by e-mail between Sendai, Japan, and London, England, during winter 1997 - 8.

Tell me about your background: Peter Robinson in conversation with Ted Slade

Published in The Poetry Kit Interview 1999.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

Occasion to revise or think again: Marcus Perryman interviews poet Peter Robinson

Published in The Cortland Review June 1999 Feature.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

About their future: Peter Robinson in conversation with Jane Davies

From a conversation taped on 14 March 2000 in Liverpool. Published in The Reader no. 8, March 2001.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

The life of a little magazine: Nate Dorward talks to Peter Robinson

This conversation was conducted via e-mail by Nate Dorward in Toronto, Canada, and Peter Robinson in first Parma, Italy, then Sendai, Japan, between September and November 2001. Published in Jacket 20, December 2002.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

Left to their own devices: Peter Robinson interviewed by Adam Piette

Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

A sense of process: Katy Price talking to Peter Robinson

Published in Salt no. 17, summer 2003.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

A tourist in your other country: Peter Robinson interviewed by Peter Carpenter

Published in Poetry Ireland Review issue 78, 2004.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

Al Que Quiere! ‘If Not, Not.’: Peter Robinson in conversation with Steve Clark

Published in Jacket 25, February 2004.

Aphorisms as poetry or criticism? An interview by Alex Pestell

Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

There are avenues, aren’t there?

Formed the basis for a profile by Tom Phillips.
Included in Talk about Poetry: Conversations on the Art (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2006).

Back Now: John Kerrigan Interviews Peter Robinson

Published in Blackbox Manifold no. 9, December 2012.

Poetry written in Britain’s ‘long moment’

Peter Robinson and Tim Dooley conducted this ‘conversation’ by email over a period of four months (September-December 2018). Published in The Fortnightly Review February 2019.