Author of The Knights Templar: The History & Myths of the Legendary Military Order, The Cathars: The Rise & Fall of the Great Heresy, The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics, Andrei Tarkovsky, and New Waves in Cinema. Wigtown Poetry Prize winner 2011; Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature's Emerging Writers 2012; Plough Poetry Prize 2013 (longlist); Poetry Business Pamphlet Comp. shortlist 2017; Wells Poetry Competition 2017 & 20 shortlist; Templar Portfolio Award winner 2017.
Robert Bird, who wrote a two books on Tarkovsky, and who I had the pleasure of meeting at the 2013 Zerkalo Tarkovsky conference in Ivanovo, Russia, has just died. He was only 50. A very sad loss.
Here is Robert's last essay, detailing Tarkovsky's last year, and his thoughts on his own - and Tarkovsky's - cancer.
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