Summary
Listening, love, and a quickened awareness of vulnerability enrich the Scottish poet Robert Crawford’s sixth collection of poems. 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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224080873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224080873 |
| Author: | Robert Crawford |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 7mm |
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A poet of great importance… fluent, inventive, funny, crackling with intellectual energy and at the very heart of our own time
A poet of great importance… fluent, inventive, funny, crackling with intellectual energy and at the very heart of our own time – Iain Crichton Smith * Scotsman *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 – Carol Rumens * Independent *Intelligent, witty, funny… These fine, acute poems, full of tight creases of meaning and sharp twists of language, show us better than most new fiction what is being lost and found every day in contemporary Scotland – James Wood * Guardian *One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Scottish literature – Keith Bruce * Herald *
About The Author
Robert Crawford
Robert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including two major biographies of T.S. Eliot- Young Eliot and Eliot After The Waste Land. 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. His poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and he has won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards as well as the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.
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