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

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One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Scottish literature

- Keith Bruce, Herald

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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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.
A poet of great importance... fluent, inventive, funny, crackling with intellectual energy and at the very heart of our own time
Listening, love, and a quickened awareness of vulnerability enrich the Scottish poet Robert Crawford's sixth collection of poems.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780224080873
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Vekt
112 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
132 mm
Dybde
7 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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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.