Finders of London

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, was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She was the first recipient of The Poetry School Scholarship and her poetry was featured in the School's second anthology, Entering the Tapestry, (Enitharmon 2003). Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Poetry London, Brittle Star, In The Company of Poets (Hearing Eye 2003) and Oxford Poets 2007.As part of Poetry International and the South Bank Centre's Trading Places project, Robinson was Poet in Residence in Lower Marsh in 2006.A former tutor in prisons, she is a regular poetry judge for the Koestler Competition and is a founding editor for Not Shut Up! and the newly established Long Poem Magazine.

• Lenten Moon What is more beautiful than a road? (Georges Sand) Charlie's Dead GoScratchYerself - (i.m. Aunt Beat) THE PANSY POEMS Pansy Neilson's Magnificent Renovations Show Pansies On The Landing Ghosting The Flats Egg Moon As a Foot Passenger On the Woolwich Ferry (after Rabelais) Operation at St Thomas' Hospital for Poor Women. Cross Bones - Southwark Tawkin' too wAnnie - Sundee tee time. Milk Moon Portraits Of Women - East London - 1888 THE FINDERS OF LONDON Mud Lark Tosher Pure-Finders Flower Moon Oshun's grand-daughter is lost in North Lambeth The Scavenger's Daughter Night-Stick Fracture The Search Blue Moon Chimney The Gate Keeper Objects of Daily Use Learning to Listen on the Thames Beach (For Mimi) Lower Marsh Speaks From Paul's Wharf Stairs Hay Moon Agnus

Robinson's poetry achieves perfectly the public world lodged in the lyricalA" (Wayne Burrows, Poetry London)