Participants: Robyn Marsack

Robyn Marsack was born and grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. After taking her BA at Victoria University, she went to Oxford, where she read for a B.Phil and then a D.Phil in English Literature, and was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. She joined Carcanet Press in 1982, and became Editorial Manager of the firm. In 1987 she moved to Scotland and worked as a freelance editor, translator (from French) and critic, publishing studies of Louis MacNeice and Sylvia Plath, and reviewing poetry regularly for newspapers and journals. She took up the post of Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in January 2000, and lives in Glasgow with her husband and daughter.

StAnza 2011 Events:

Sat 19 March | In Conversation
James McGonigal talks to Robyn Marsack
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium


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	Festival 2011 Information Events Participants Afterword Photo Gallery Virtual Festival Cyber Slam 2010 Archives Past Programmes Past Participants Past Virtual StAnza 2012 StAnza 2011 StAnza 2010 StAnza 2009 StAnza 2008 StAnza 2007 StAnza 2006 StAnza 2005	Participants: Robyn Marsack Robyn Marsack was born and grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. After taking her BA at Victoria University, she went to Oxford, where she read for a B.Phil and then a D.Phil in English Literature, and was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. She joined Carcanet Press in 1982, and became Editorial Manager of the firm. In 1987 she moved to Scotland and worked as a freelance editor, translator (from French) and critic, publishing studies of Louis MacNeice and Sylvia Plath, and reviewing poetry regularly for newspapers and journals. She took up the post of Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in January 2000, and lives in Glasgow with her husband and daughter. StAnza 2011 Events: Sat 19 March \| In Conversation James McGonigal talks to Robyn Marsack The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium Back to top