Robin Knight
A selection of Robin’s published poetry and journals/magazines in which it has appeared...
Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is the national poetry magazine of Wales. Wales’ foremost poetry magazine, Poetry Wales publishes internationally respected contemporary poetry, features and reviews in its triannual print and digital magazine in its mission to sustain and preserve the artistic works both inspiring our literary present and shaping our literary future.
Its interests in translation, and in local and national identities in a global context, are at the forefront of some of the most exciting developments in poetry today.
Robin’s piece “Abolished Birthplace” can be found in Volume 58, Winter 2022.
The North is a literary magazine published twice a year by The Poetry Business, and is essential reading for anyone who loves contemporary poetry. Each issue includes: a lively range of international poetry by new and established writers, book reviews from mainstream publishers to smaller presses; critical articles; conversations with writers; and features such as “Poets I Go Back To…” and “Blind Criticism” close Readings.
Robin’s “Our Lady of Corona” is on page 47 of Issue 65, December 2020.
The American Journal of Poetry is a biannual online review devoted exclusively to poetry and the occasional essay. A strong voice and risk-taking is highly prized. Each issue features the work of a myriad of poets from beginning artists to many of the world’s most acclaimed.
Robin’s “Free Ota Benga” is in Volume 11, July 2021.
The AutoEthnographer magazine is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine dedicated to presenting the creative side of autoethnography, a method of qualitative inquiry that unites autobiography and ethnography by utilizing lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena. The magazine aims to promote cultural diversity and appreciation, and to celebrate creative expression as a vehicle for shared understanding and positive change.
Rattle’s mission is to promote the practice of poetry.
They feel that poetry lost its way in the 20th century, to the point that mainstream readers have forgotten how moving language alone can be. As a result, most people learn to find their feelings in music, movies, and novels, while poetry languishes on its lone shelf in the bookstores, waiting only for the occasional cameo at a university workshop.
Robin’s piece 'Shoalfish' is found in Issue 71, Spring 2021.
Visual Verse is a collaboration. An anthology of art, poetry, short fiction and non-fiction. Each month they supply a compelling image and invite writers (published or unpublished) to submit a piece in response.
Visual Verse is a celebration. Of the drama of seeing and the desire to express it. Of the things that inspire us, move us, and that we find hardest to articulate.
Visual Verse is a challenge. They offer the chance to experience the rush of writing without overthinking. Sometimes strange, sometimes beautiful, to let the picture be the start of something you can’t predict: your own response.
Robin's ekphratic pieces are all found here on their website.
Filling Station is an experimental literary magazine published in Calgary, Alberta, founded in 1993. Filling Station publishes three issues per year filled with innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, book reviews, and visual art.
By consistently providing a contrast to more traditional literary and arts journals, Filling Station remains unique among literary magazines in Canada. The editorial board of the magazine has always been composed of volunteers, most of whom are writers or artists. Many emerging writers from Calgary have at one time volunteered on Filling Station's board or editorial collective.
Robin’s pieces 'Le Monde Miroir' and 'Feats of Obsolescence' feature on pages 8 and 9 of Issue 75, January 2021.
Lighthouse is a literary journal dedicated to publishing new writing and championing new writers. They publish the best short fiction, poetry, and art emerging from the UK scene.
Robin has appeared in Issues 23 and 24. His piece 'Deflation' is on page 4 of Issue 23.
SOUTH was launched as “a poetry magazine for the southern counties of England,” seeking to explore the question of whether they had their own distinct poetic identity. But “for” became “from” as it began to attract poets and readers from a much wider area.
In 2003 SOUTH became fully self-supporting. It has never received official funding or outside sponsorship. It is proud of its independence, and of the support and encouragement it has been able to provide for many well established poets at a crucial stage in their development.
Robin’s 'Gothic Mary Poppins' featured in Issue 62, April 2023.
Superpresent was founded as a quarterly magazine of the arts. It was created with a few simple goals: to present striking visual art and writing without favoring one over the other; to be available both online and in print; to be free (free to download or view online and free to submit work to); and to produce an affordable, high quality print version for those who still like touching paper and ink.
Robin’s 'Death of Achilles' is on page 111 of Volume 2, Winter 2022.
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters and its imprint Buttonhook Press have as their primary ambitions to gather, publish, and popularize notable contemporary writing and other fine arts and to promote the work of its contributors to a varied and discerning audience in the English-speaking world and beyond.
Robin’s pieces 'A Bout de Souffle', 'Burrator Reservoir', and 'Rendezvous Monochrome' are all found here.
Beyond Words is an international literary magazine published monthly. The magazine offer a stage for emerging writers and visual artists and consider works from all around the world.
Robin’s “Gothic” appeared in the May 2020 edition.
Halfway Down the Stairs is a quarterly literary magazine established in 2005 to publish cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by talented writers.
New issues are published every March, June, September, and December.
Robin’s piece 'Original Sin' appeared in the December 2016 Issue.
Whirlwind Magazine was founded in 2014 in Camden, NJ, the final resting place of Walt Whitman. They are a small literary and art journal committed to publishing works in the spirit of social justice.
The 2017 Winter issue features literature and art that bears witness to social injustice inflicted under Empire.
Robin’s Poem “Oberon’s Empire” can be found on page 9.
GRIFFEL is a stylus. Use it to scratch words in stone. In wax. Use it to write. GRIFFEL is an online magazine for literature, culture and social issues. The publication comes out quarterly every January, April, July, and October.
“Baltimore Mermaid” can be found in issue 9, October 2021.
MONO is a literary journal dedicated to the unstuffy, to dark humour and writing that sits on the blurred edges of ordinary life between melancholy and humour. It's the things we shouldn't laugh at, the cringeworthy moments that we love to forget, the irony of life but always with a dark or comic twist.
Robin’s 'Morsel' is in Issue 1, October 2021.
The Dewdrop is a digest of reflective and powerful writing focused on reading, writing and being. It is immersed in poetry, essays and book excerpts that draw on classic texts as well as contemporary writing.
Grounded in Zen Buddhism, The Dewdrop is interested in every faith background as well as writers who don’t identify with any formal tradition. Humanists, agnostics, scientists, atheists and Jedis are most warmly welcome.
The Dewdrop has published Robin’s poems “Vulpine Nature” and “The Dog on the Train”.
"There is a certain joy that comes from reading poetry grounded in emotion and personal connections. Like the dropping of anchor at sea, we gravitate towards works which line by line draw us deeper into the present moment to settle and linger".
Splash! Is the online Poetry imprint of the Haunted Waters Press. Robin’s piece “Oaklands” appears on their website.
Robin’s work has been selected to appear in other publications including The Bangalore Review, Kaleidoscope, Poetry For The People, Artificium (Circling Lefkes), Signo (Traveller), Myth & Lore, The Wave, Tempered Runes Press (Here, Kitty Kitty), The Perch, Cathexis NW Press, and elsewhere.