Anna Robinson was born and lives in London. She has an MA in Public History from Ruskin College, Oxford. Her pamphlet, Songs from the flats (Hearing Eye 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. In 2001, she became the first recipient of The Poetry School Scholarship. Anna Robinson has had a number of poet residences and as a former ... Read moretutor in prisons she is a regular poetry judge for the Koestler Competition and a founding editor for Not Shut Up! and The Long Poem Magazine. She teaches at the University of East London, where she is undertaking a PhD exploring shared concerns between history and poetry. Anna Robinson's poetry has been described as achieving perfectly the public world lodged in the lyrical (Wayne Burrows, Poetry London). Her first collection The Finders of London was shortlisted for the inaugural Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre Prize for Poetry in 2011. Show Less