A Life of Poetry: The Peter Robinson Archive
Collaboration & Community in the Making of Poems
About this event
This exhibition celebrates the establishment of the Peter Robinson Library & Archive, which documents the literary and academic career of poet, translator, critic and Professor of English and American Literature at University of Reading, Peter Robinson.
Through notebooks, drafts, correspondence, translations and publications, it explores how poetry is written, revised, translated and published, while also highlighting some of the wider poetry collections held by University of Reading, Special Collections.
Image: Detail from Self-Portrait with Lampshade (1981) and notebook pages from The Peter Robinson Archive
Date & Time
6 October 2026 – 17 January 2027
Audience
Public