Anna Robinson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Media, Fashion & Communications , School Of Arts And Creative Industries
Areas Of Interest
Anna is a published poet, playwright and non-fiction author, editor and senior lecturer. She is the author of 'Whatsname Street' (Smokestack Books), 'The Night Library' (Stone Wood Press), 'Into the Woods' (Enitharmon), 'The Finders of London' (Enitharmon) - which has been shortlisted for the 2011 Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize, and 'Songs From the Flats' (Hearing Eye) – which was the pamphlet choice for the Poetry Book Society in 2006. Her play 'Marsh' was performed online in 2020.
Anna edited the Lambeth Pamphlet history series for Lambeth Archives, is poetry editor for Not Shut Up magazine and founding editor for The Long Poem magazine. Anna is a Hawthornden fellow and works as a partner with Pen to Print for Barking and Dagenham Library Service. Her general research interests revolve around working class writing and experience, history and voice – especially dialect/accent writing.
OVERVIEW
Anna Robinson is an experienced lecturer in history and creative writing, and particularly in the field of widening access programmes. She has taught for over 25 years in Further and Higher Education and in prisons. At UEL, she has taught New Beginnings, Extended and Foundation Humanities programmes and Creative and Professional Writing.
Anna Robinson has an MA in Public History from Ruskin College, Oxford, and her research interests are the relationship between history and poetry, working class poetics, family and public history, and prisoners’ creative writing.
Her PhD was called 'Webber Street: a collection of poems about the history of a social housing estate' and was passed in 2018.
CURRENT RESEARCH
The title of my PhD was 'Webber Street: a collection of poems about the history of a social housing estate'.
My other research interests are: working class history - especially women's, working class poetics, dialect poetry, Match Girls strike 1888, London.
PUBLICATIONS
- Whatsname Street. Robinson, A., (2021], Ripon: Smokestack Books Anna Robinson.
- Webber Street.
- The Night Library Robinson, A, Parker, M.. 2015. Oundle: Stonewood Press.
- Into the Woods Robinson, A. 2014.
- The Finders of London Robinson, A. 2010. London: Enitharmon Press.
- Oxford Poets, 2007 eds Constantine and O'Donoghue. 2007. Manchester: Carcanet. pp 87-93.
- Songs from the Flats, Robinson, A. 2006. London: Hearing Eye.
TEACHING
MODULES
- CC3035 Academic Development
- CC3037 London and Literature
- CC3039 London and History
- Pilot course - Not Shut Up and UEL Creative Writing Course for Prisoners