About the Author

Roger Robinson is a writer, skilled performer and lecturer on poetry and performance. Listed by Decibel as one of fifty writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon over the past five decades, he has toured with the British Council in Vietnam, the Philippines, Argentina, India and the Czech Republic and his workshops have been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries. Roger's oeuvre encompasses the one-man shows: 'Shadow Boxer', 'Letter from My Father's Brother', and 'Prohibition'; a book of short fiction, 'Adventures in 3D' (Lubin & Kleyner, 2001); an album of spoken folk, 'illclectica' (Altered Vibes, 2004) and two poetry collections: 'Suitcase' (waterways, 2004) and the recently completed 'Suckle' (waterways, 2009).