Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work

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Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work

By (author): matt robinson

Matt Robinson is in the best sense a poet of the domestic, his intense curiosity animating a renewed engagement with things familiarthe intellectual life of the family dog, a favourite pair of jeans, sports, local landmarks and relationships. In these poems, Robinson approaches each subject with vivid imagery and the intellectual terseness of a logical proposition, playfully reminding us of the “uneven arithmetic” that invigorates poetic language.

AUTHOR

matt robinson

Matt Robinson previously published five full-length poetry collections, including Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work (2016), as well as numerous chapbooks. Robinson has won the Grain Prose Poetry Prize, the Petra Kenney Award and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, among others. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his family.