Scottish poet Robin Robertson, will give a reading as part of UCC’s Spring Reading Series on Thursday, April 9, 6pm in Learning Zone, UCC Library. All welcome; admission free.

Robertson has published five collections of poetry. Two of his volumes, A Painted Field (1997) and Swithering (2006) have won the Forward Prize and Hill of Doors (2013) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. In 2004 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and he was jointly award the Petrarch Prize in 2013.

He is also a publishing editor at Jonathan Cape and has edited the work of many writers, including John Banville, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Sharon Olds, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, as well as UCC’s lecturer in creative writing, Mary Morrissy, whose collection of short stories is forthcoming from Cape.