Highlights of the subsequent decade were provided by John Ashbery’s characterizing his poetry, along with that of other younger writers, as ‘curiously strong’ in "PN Review" (1993), while Peter Swaab, again in the "TLS" (4 Sept 1998) noted its ‘staying power’. James Keery published the first attempt to articulate this evolving oeuvre's underlying themes in ‘Marred in a way you recognize’ in "PN Review" 126 (Mar-April 1999), and the first appreciation in a critical study came with Sumie Okada's ‘A Sense of Being Misplaced’, "Western Writers in Japan" (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). Robinson's many years working in that country made it difficult for him to maintain a profile in the British poetry scene, but his work continued to receive attention, and the publication of his "Selected Poems" (2003) prompted a number of reviews including a welcome by Patrick McGuinness in the "Poetry Review" (Winter 2005), a review in "The Japan Times" (20 Oct 2003) by David Burleigh, and one in Romanian by Catalin Ghita.