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Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson

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Some Sacred Harbour

Author
Roger Robinson
Narrator
Roger Robinson
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publish Date
24 September 2026
Run Time
2 hours 4 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Poetry / poems by individual poets

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Bloomsbury presents Some Sacred Harbour, written and read by Roger Robinson

Selected Poems gathers together a lifetime's work by beloved, prize-winning poet and musician, Roger Robinson, reflecting on the joys and pains of life

'His poems are deep, mature, moving and inventive' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
'Robinson is one of the most important poetic voices in the UK right now' RAYMOND ANTROBUS
'Roger Robinson shows us that he can be the voice of our communal consciousness' AFUA HIRSCH

From his beginnings a London-based spoken-word poet in the 1990s to winning the T. S. Eliot prize in 2019 and the Ondaatje Prize in 2020, Roger Robinson's name has been synonymous with poetry of profound depth and empathy which explores the breadth of human experience.

Selected Poems gathers together over twenty years of powerful work which has inspired generations of Black writers. Whether demonstrating the intimacy of a father braiding his daughter's hair, celebrating the joy of community at a house party or reflecting on the premature birth of his son in 'Grace', Robinson's work is characterised by musicality, soul, technical precision and subtlety unlike any other poet.

Critics Review

  • Beautiful, haunting, thought-provoking . . . A book I will return to again and again

    BERNARDINE EVARISTO, on Home Is Not A Place

  • Robinson is one of the most important poetic voices in the UK right now

    RAYMOND ANTROBUS

  • His work manages to be both convincingly rich and textured, yet is blessed by a clarity and focus that makes it approachable and imaginatively inhabitable

    PAUL FARLEY

  • Roger Robinson shows us that he can be the voice of our communal consciousness

    AFUA HIRSCH

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  • Masterful . . . A thing of brilliance

    CALEB AZUMAH NELSON, on Home Is Not A Place

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Details
Author
Roger Robinson
Narrator
Roger Robinson
Duration
2 hours 4 minutes
Release Date
24 September 2026
ISBN
9781526694119
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre
Poetry / poems by individual poets

Synopsis

Bloomsbury presents Some Sacred Harbour, written and read by Roger RobinsonSelected Poems gathers together a lifetime's work by beloved, prize-winning poet and musician, Roger Robinson, reflecting on the joys and pains of life'His poems are deep, mature, moving and inventive' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Robinson is one of the most important poetic voices in the UK right now' RAYMOND ANTROBUS'Roger Robinson shows us that he can be the voice of our communal consciousness' AFUA HIRSCHFrom his beginnings a London-based spoken-word poet in the 1990s to winning the T. S. Eliot prize in 2019 and the Ondaatje Prize in 2020, Roger Robinson's name has been synonymous with poetry of profound depth and empathy which explores the breadth of human experience. Selected Poems gathers together over twenty years of powerful work which has inspired generations of Black writers. Whether demonstrating the intimacy of a father braiding his daughter's hair, celebrating the joy of community at a house party or reflecting on the premature birth of his son in 'Grace', Robinson's work is characterised by musicality, soul, technical precision and subtlety unlike any other poet.

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