Rob

• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Gemini
• Location: United Kingdom

About Me

I'm from Scotland. My chapbook collection, The Clown of Natural Sorrow was published in December 2005 by HappenStance Press. I run a poetry reading series in Edinburgh called Poetry at the Great Grog. I read, write and review poetry.

Interests

• Poetry
• writing
• reading
• film
• music
• playing the saxophone
• red wine
• football (soccer)
• travel

Favorite Movies

• Some like it Hot
• Almost Famous
• L'Ora di Religione
• Monsoon Wedding.

Favorite Music

• Tom Waits
• Velvet Underground
• Buzzcocks
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• The Fall
• The Smiths
• Leonard Cohen
• Mull Historical Society
• Belle and Sebastian
• Bob Dylan
• The Clash.

Favorite Books

• Charles Simic
• Denise Levertov
• T.S. Eliot
• Norman MacCaig
• Wallace Stevens
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Cesare Pavese
• Edwin Morgan
• John Ash
• Miroslav Holub
• Don Paterson
• Tomas Transtromer
• Denis Johnson
• George Szirtes
• New York School
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Roddy Lumsden
• Fernando Pessoa
• Seamus Heaney
• A. B. Jackson
• John Burnside
• Wislawa Szymborska
• Robert Crawford
• Stephen Dunn.

Rob's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Surroundings
	Poetry at the Great Grog