Sit How You Want, Trillium Award Winning Poetry by Robin Richardson
Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis - Poetry by Robin Richardson
Grunt of the Minotaur -Poetry by Robin Richardson -
Try Not to Get Too Attached - Poetry and Art by Robin Richardson
“I still remember when the Trillium jury read Sit How You Want. We were floored, and it was one of the rare times the decision felt immediate. Usually those discussions drag on, but your book was just exquisite.”
- Puneet Dutt, Poet and Trillium Jury Member
Robin Richardson is a Canadian poet and essayist with works in Hazlitt, Poetry Magazine, Tin House, CBC, Salon, The Walrus, and others. Her last collection of poems, Sit How You Want, won the Trillium Book Award and Relit Award. She is a MacDowell and Doris McCarthy Fellow and founder of the women’s journal, Minola Review
Awards
Trillium Book Award | Ontario creates | Winner | 2019
Relit Award| Winner | 2019
CBC Poetry Prize| Shortlist |2017
Fortnight Poetry Prize | Eyewear Press | Winner | 2017
Walrus Poetry Prize| Shortlist | 2014
Joan T Baldwin Scholarship | Sarah Lawerence College | Winner | 2012
John B. Santoianni Award | Academy of American Poets | Winner | 2012
Books
The Thing About Being Alive | Book*Hug | 2020
Sit How You Want | Vehicule Press | 2018
Minola Review | 2018 (RIP)
Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis | ECW Press | 2014
Grunt of the Minotaur | Insomniac Press | 2012
Collaborations
Earthquakes & Islands | Poems from Sit How You Want featured in Andrew Staniland’s Opera for the Brooklyn Art Song Society | 2018
Journals
Best Canadian Poetry | Tightrope Books Annual Anthology | Multiple Years
Poetry Magazine | The Poetry Foundation | Multiple Years
Tin House | 2012 War Issue | No longer listed
Salon | 2018
Hazlitt | Random House | Multiple Years
American Poetry Review| 2019
Many Gendered Mothers | 2019
Arc | Multiple Years
North American Review | 2012
The Puritan | Multiple Years
Zouch | 2014
Literary Review of Canada | Multiple Years
Carousel | Multiple Years
The Boiler Journal | 2011
Interviews
Rusty Toque | In-depth interview about process and craft
Poetry Society of America | Interviews Robin Richardson on her founding of Minola Review
The Ex-Puritan | Interviews Robin Richardson about Fear, Momentum, and Success
The Wild Muse Interviews Robin Richardson about her sculptures
Arc Poetry Magazine | Interview with Robin Richardson about Sit How You Want, Poetry as Myth-Making
So To Speak | Interview with Robin Richardson about Art & Writing Hybridization
Ploughsares | To Resuscitate the Stifled Voice, an Interview with Robin Richardson about Minola Review
Rob Mclennan | An interview by Madeleine Wattenberg
Ontario Creates | Interviews Robin Richardson on the founding of Citadel Collective (our pre-covid attempt to build a school)
Malahat Reviews | Brevity and a Strong Bio
Partisan Magazine | Carmine Starnino Interviews Robin Richardson about Sit How You Want
Fjords | Q & A 2014
Lisa Young| Q & A 2015
Reviews
Arc Poetry Magazine Reviews Sit How You Want
Brooklyn RailReviews Try No to Get too Attached
Medium |Margaryta Golovchenko On Grunt of the Minotaur
Quill & Quire | Mikko Harvey on Sit How You Want
CBC | 14 Poets to watch
CBC | Best Canadian Comics in 2020
“Poetry often touches me deeply. But reading Robin Richardson's Sit How You Want is changing the way I think about life, about women. This seems important. I hope this book reaches a varied audience, far and wide. I truly want to buy a dozen copies and hand them out to men.” — Johnny Pigeau
