To Reclaim Power Through Poetry
Shadows shelter silence. Words harbour weight. Pages promise peace. My poems open gates.
Robin Gittens is a Toronto-based poet exploring trauma, identity, albinism, heritage. and healing. His poetic tales invite you to dig beneath the surface, confront pain, and reclaim power through poetry. A candid storyteller, Robin continues to sharpen his craft, pursue his publishing goals and connect with communities of like-minded creatives.
After more than two decades in technology, Robin slowly recognized his tumultuous reality: the digital products he helped build could no longer carry the weight of his creativity. Poetry—an art he secretly practiced since childhood—offered a path to confront pain, reclaim his spirit, and reclaim his voice.
Robin’s background in Product Management and UX Design still informs his creative work. Those disciplines taught him to listen with curiosity, think critically, honour structure, discover patterns, and create meaningful experiences (stories) with care and intention.
Penning poetry allows him to move beyond the surface. It asks him to transform lived experience into language—as a form of healing, witness, and expression.
From Product to Poetry
Manuscript
Across seventy-five poems, Robin's manuscript, Those Colours That Coat Us moves through personal memory, trauma, natural disaster, haunted places, comic book mythology, companionship, and spiritual reclamation. What began as trauma-led catharsis has become a deeper act of healing: a way to reclaim his voice, honour the inner child, and transform the word “albino” into courage, dignity, and hope.
Robin's manuscript is currently being reviewed and edited!
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
— Robert Frost
Published Poems
Two poems—taken from Robin's manuscript Those Colours That Coat Us were published in Wheelsong Poetry Anthology 8, a collection of poems from writers around the world.
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Five poems—four from Robin's manuscript Those Colours That Coat Us—were published on From The Fig Tree Press's official Substack page in August, 2026.
From The Fig Tree Press is an independent press located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They aim to amplify the voices of those hungry to be heard, from visual art to romantic poetry to sci-fi to critiques to personal essays to short stories.
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