And he played till dawn: all the jigs and reels he knew, before he stood and drained the last from his glass, slipped back in to the seal-skin, into a new day, saluting us with that famous grin: "That's me away."
In 2004, he edited Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame, which collects seventy commissioned pieces by international authors.
In 2006 he published The Deleted World, a new version of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, and in 2008 a new translation of Medea, which has been dramatised for stage and radio.
Robertson's first volume of poetry, A Painted Field, won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[3] He completed the set of Forward Prizes in 2009 when "At Roane Head" won the award for Best Single Poem.