BESIEGED

Besieged
Colin Campbell Robinson & Paul Hawkins

Photo Poetry collaboration currently unpublished

Colin Campbell Robinson was born in Manchester in 1953 and emigrated with his family to Australia at the age of nine. 
After a less than stellar academic career and years of factory work and odd jobs, he became involved in community activism, working with
organisations such as the Tenants’ Union. In the 1990s he founded a social research consultancy and became known in Australia for 
his writing on social justice issues, working with various non-government organisations to change the situation faced by people 
experiencing homelessness, mental health problems, addiction and poverty, often all of the above. Colin returned to Britain in 2003 and 
continued to do social research, notably with The Passage, London’s largest day centre for the homeless. Since 2013 he has devoted 
himself full-time to writing and photography. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies around the world. 
His books have been published by by Knives Forks Spoons Press; Blue Solitude in 2018, Footnotes from History – the Debord Variations 
in 2021 and Resistance in 2025. Colin currently lives on the Isle of Bute off the west coast of Scotland and in Edinburgh.