Robert Johnstone

Life
1951- ; b. Belfast; ed. Royal Belfast Acad. Inst., and NUU; co-founder Caret, with William Peskett and Trevor McMahon; associated with Fortnight as reviewer and deputy editor, 1974-86; joint-ed. Honest Ulsterman with Frank Ormsby, 1984-89, and later joint-ed. with Ruth Hooley; Images of Belfast (1983), photos. by Bill Kirk [essays on William Drennan, John Cooke, DD, et al.]; ed., All Shy Wildness (Blackstaff 1989) [anthology of Irish animal poetry]; Breakfast in a Bright Room (Belfast: Blackstaff 1983); Eden to Edenderry (Belfast: Blackstaff 1989), 112pp. [poetic journey to terminus of Orange marchers]. ORM


Works
Robert Bell, Robert Johnstone, and Robin Wilson, eds., Troubled Times, Fortnight Magazine and the Troubles in Northern Ireland 1970-91 (Belfast: Blackstaff 1991), 230pp.

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Notes
Anthologised in Frank Ormsby, Poets of Northern Ireland (rev. ed. 1990); also Northern Windows (1987), pp.243-59 [extract from Images of Belfast] [AUTOB]. b.1951- ; b. Belfast; ed. Royal Belfast Acad. Inst., and NUU; ed. committee Fortnight; joint-ed. Honest Ulsterman; poems, Breakfast in a Bright Room (1983); also Images of Belfast, photos. by Bill Kirk (1983) [essays on William Drennan, John Cooke, DD, et al.]; ed. All Shy Wildness (1984), anthology of Irish animal poetry; extract from Images of Belfast (1983) selected in Frank Ormsby, ed., Northern Windows, An Anthology of Ulster Autobiography (Blackstaff 1987), pp.243-59.

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