Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£9.00
Author:
Robert Crawford
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780224080873
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EAN: 9780224080873
Published: 6 Mar 2008
Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise intricate abundance.
Assured in its rhymes and cadences, Full Volume is often attentive to poetry in other tongues, not least Gaelic. As their tones and forms shift from the spiritual to the wry, from haiku to brosnachadh, the poems' resonance and music build into a sustained sounding of what it means to live, love, and listen in a world where 'Nothing is ever single'.
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Robert Crawford is one of the most distinctive of these new virtuosi. A gifted critic as well as a poet, he relishes the language game, but also keeps a grasp on more emotionally challenging matters
- Independent
One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Scottish literature
- Herald
Robert Crawford was born in Lanarkshire in 1959. His first collection, A Scottish Assembly, was published in 1990. His Selected Poems (Cape, 2005) was awarded the Poetry Book Society's Special Commendation. Author of Scotland's Books (Penguin, 2007) and co-editor of The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews and has recently written a biography of Robert Burns, The Bard.
