In 2000, he produced a new edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Fergusson to mark the 250th anniversary of that poet's birth. Robertson edited a further collection of short stories, A Tongue in Yer Heid (1994), together with two books by geologist and folklorist Hugh Miller (1802-56) and was the joint compiler of a Dictionary of Scottish Quotations (1996). His novels include The Fanatic (2000) and Joseph Knight (2003), which won 'Book of the Year' awards from both the Saltire Society (2003) and the Scottish Arts Council (2004). His works include a collection of short stories Close (1991), a collection of poems The Ragged Man's Complaint (1993) and Sound-Shadow (1995), in additional to poems such as I Dream of Alfred Hitchcock (1999), Fae the Flouers o' Evil: Baudelaire in Scots (2001) and Stirling Sonnets (2001). For two years from 1993, he served as writer-in-residence at Brownsbank Cottage in South Lanarkshire, which had been the home of poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 - 1978). Born in Kent, from the age of six Robertson was brought up in Bridge of Allan and went on to read history at the University of Edinburgh. Author and poet, writing mostly in the Scots language.
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