the Wounds of Faith

<p>Michael Robinson is the winner of the 2009 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize and the 2023 Tom Collins Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Tom Collins Poetry Prize in 2007.</p><p><br></p><p>An x-ray poet looking beneath and beyond appearance to the reality...Powerful and disturbing...Yet atonement is here as well...This is clarion call poetry with all its evocative and gritty language. </p><p>- Ian Keast Studio.</p><p><br></p><p>Combines serious social concern with keen perception of both the beauty and the ugliness of the physical world all presented in a masterfully controlled formal context. </p><p>- Sarah Day and Tim Thorne Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. </p><p><br></p><p>A well-crafted tactile poem that gallops with 'the tides of conflict ebb and roar'; 'And every local skirmish has its long / Significance in legends of the deep'; it speaks of 'The ruthless sunlight'; ... 'the river's ripples with fragile fire.' - Pain is felt throughout this poem until it reaches a surprising poignant end. </p><p>- Rose Van Son Tom Collins Poetry Prize.</p><p><br></p><p>Spoke for generations...finely built full of pathos. </p><p>- Peter Bibby Tom Collins Poetry Prize. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>The Wounds of Faith is Michael Robinson's third collection of poetry. His previous books are<em> The Tiger in the Vineyard</em> (2015) and <em>The Music of the Streets </em>(2017). A special issue of <em>Studio</em> journal devoted to his work <em>The Quiet Fire</em> was published in 2023.</p><p><br></p>