The small town with a big potato that inspired a global poetry win

Robertson might be tiny but for poet and schoolteacher Peter Ramm, it is the secret weapon that helped him win the UK's biggest prize for unpublished poetry

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Robertson is a small, pretty town perched on the edge of the New South Wales southern highlands, almost teetering on the escarpment that falls away to the Illawarra and Shoalhaven coasts.

It is most famous as the home of The Big Potato - an appropriately tuber-shaped concrete monolith on the main street - and a triumphant rugby league team called the Spuddies.

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