Anna Robinson

I am very pleased to be, once again, running creative writing workshops in the Crypt at St John's in Waterloo, London. They have re-commenced after the summer break and occur on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month, 6.30 - 8 p.m. They are free to participants - provided by the Bridge community project. Contact Abigail via Outreach at St Johns Waterloo dot org to book a place. 

In other news: 

The Marsh - a play set in a courtyard off Lower Marsh Market in 1890 was performed at the Glitch Theatre in Lower Marsh - Waterloo in August. It was well received and thanks to all that came and helped make it a success. The programme notes are on this site - see above for the links. 

The Marsh also had a rehearsed reading at the Cockpit theatre, back in January 2026. You will find a review of that reading with some pictures of that event on The Marsh event page.

This year (as last) at the Waterloo Festival we (me and the creative writing group) have worked with Sculptors from the London Group on ekphrastic poems responding to their work. The results were performed on the opening night of the festival in the churchyard and can be read on the London Group website.

My first lyric essay 'The Difficult We' is published by the lovely Magma poetry magazine on their website https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-90/articles/the-difficult-we/

I am also featured in a new anthology exploring the horrors the US election brought: What Rough Beast has been edited by Rip Bulkeley and Merryn Williams and is a free to download pdf book from Culture Matters. One of my two poems (Trumpet) has its very own cartoon to illustrate it. 

My latest book 'Whatsname Street' was published by Smokestack Books on August 1st 2021 and can be purchased via their website https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=206 or the books page on this site.  It features poems exploring the history of a social housing estate...

The Poetry Parlour radio show on Soho Radio has not been happening since Covid and lockdown but you can click over to the Poetry Parlour page to listen again to the existing shows or catch up with any you missed.

See words to Rosa Mundi on poems page