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OverviewOn the brink of the referendum on independence, the first collection in six years from this major Scottish poet To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with 'Testament', a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert CrawfordPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 19.90cm Weight: 0.101kg ISBN: 9780224098076ISBN 10: 0224098071 Pages: 80 Publication Date: 03 July 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsCrawford's poetic voice has a calm lucidity, never ostentatious or wilfully obscure... Poets are better with metaphors than politicians. -- Sarah Mansfield * Scotland on Sunday * Crawford’s poetic voice has a calm lucidity, never ostentatious or wilfully obscure… Poets are better with metaphors than politicians. -- Sarah Mansfield * Scotland on Sunday * Crawford's poetic voice has a calm lucidity, never ostentatious or wilfully obscure... Poets are better with metaphors than politicians. -- Sarah Mansfield Scotland on Sunday Author InformationRobert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including Young Eliot. Emeritus Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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