Matt Robinson

matt robinson is a native of Halifax, NS, who currently works in Residential Life at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB. His most recent collection of poetry is no cage contains a stare that well (ECW, 2005), a full-length volume of hockey poems.

A two-time National Magazine Award finalist, robinson’s poetry has received numerous awards, including The Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize and Grain’s Prose Poem Prize. A recipient of The NB Foundation for the Arts’ Emerging Artist of the Year Award, his poems have appeared on radio and television, in numerous Canadian, American, British, and Australian publications, as well as in anthologies such as The New Canon (Vehicule, 2005), Breathing Fire 2 (Nightwood, 2004), Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Pearson, 2004), Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Pearson, 2004), Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Goose Lane, 2002), Exact Fare Only 2 (Anvil, 2004), and Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land (Acorn Press, 2001).

A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead, robinson has also served as NB / PEI Regional Rep and President of The League of Canadian Poets.

Awards
Winner, The Petra Kenney Memorial International Poetry Competition, 1999
Winner, The Writers Federation of New Brunswick Poetry Award, 2000
Special Honourable Mention, The Writers Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize, 2000
Winner, The Desmond Pacey Memorial Prize, University of New Brunswick, 2000
Runner-up, Exotic Erotica Canadian Style Short Story Contest,1999
3rd Prize, THiS Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Poetry, 2000
Winner, The Angela Ludan Levine Memorial Book Prize, 2000
Short List/Finalist, The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 2001
Short List, The ReLit Awards, Poetry, 2001
Finalist/Honourable Mention, National Magazine Awards -Poetry, 2001
Winner, The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize, 2001
3rd Prize, VWG Ray Burrell Award for Poetry, 2002
Winner, Grain Magazine's 14th Annual Short Grain Prose Poem Prize, 2002
Finalist, National Magazine Awards — Poetry, 2002
Winner, 2002 WCDR Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Competition, 2002.
Winner, 14th Annual Short Grain Contest — Prose Poem Category, 2002.
Nominee, Pushcart Prize (2003).
Winner, New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts’ Emerging Artist of the Year Award, 2003.

Selected Publications
no cage contains a stare that well (ECW Press: Toronto, 2005) ISBN: 1-55022-711-4
A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac Press, 2000) ISBN 1-895837-86-3.
how we play at it: a list (ECW Press: Toronto, 2002).
tracery & interplay (Frog Hollow Press, Victoria, BC), 2004.

Selected Anthologies
Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land (The Acorn Press: Charlottetown, 2001) ISBN 0-9698606-9-2.
Exact Fare Only 2 (Anvil Press: Vancouver, BC, 2004) ISBN 1-895636-55-8
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Goose Lane Editions: Fredericton, NB, 2002) ISBN 0-86492-313-9.
Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Generation of Poets (Nightwood Editions, 2004) ISBN  0-88971-195-X.
Literature: A Pocket Anthology, 1st Canadian Edition (Pearson Educ. Canada, 2004) ISBN 0-321-17052-0.
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, 1st Canadian Edition (Pearson Educ. Canada, 2004) ISBN 0-321-17053-9.
(Some From) Diagram: Selections from the Magazine and More (Del Sol Press, 2003) ISBN 0-9725095-8-5.
Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action (Penumbra Press, 2002) ISBN 1-894131-37-1.

Books in Print
Robinson, Matt
no cage contains a stare that well (Poetry, ECW Press: Toronto, 2005) ISBN: 1-55022-711-4, $16.95
tracery & interplay (Poetry, Frog Hollow Press 2004) ISBN: 0-9732776-6-1, $30.00
A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Poetry, Insomniac Press, 2000) ISBN 1-895837-86-3. $12.95
how we play at it: a list (ECW Press: Toronto, 2002) ISBN: 1-55022-551-0. $15.95.

Matt Robinson
Apt. 2, Bridges House
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, CANADA
phone: (506) 458-7002 fax: (506) 458-7005
e-mail: mattr@unb.ca