Selected Poems by Robert Crawford
Here is a distillation of the best work from one of Scotland's leading contemporary poets. Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy wedded to a constantly refreshing delight in nuanced language. Richly nourished by his background, Crawford's work is both lyrical and wry. Its intelligent humour and attunement to our technological present are impressively fused with a deepening note of spirituality. Unpredictable yet recognisable, these are poems of beguiling vitality. While readers have praised Crawford's lovingly lyrical engagement with politics and science in such collections as A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Spirit Machines (1999), with gender in Masculinity (1996), or with environment and spirituality in The Tip of My Tongue (2003), what emerges in this Selected Poems is a clearly growing commitment to the protean delight of poetry itself: a belief in its uniqueness as a medium which can subtly sound out complex relationships with heartfelt intelligence. In Crawford's language there is a confidently contemporary Scottish music that celebrates a kinship between the cherished, minute detail, local or personal, and the magnificently universal, 'As a candle-flame believes in the speed of light'.
Robert Crawford is the author of six poetry collections, including Spirit Machines which won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and most recently, The Tip of My Tongue. He has also co-edited two major recent anthologies, The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945, and The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, and published many works of criticism. He teaches at the University of St Andrews.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224076944 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224076949 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Robert Crawford |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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