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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.Crawford knows when to be <i>piano </i>and when to ring out the <i>forte</i>... This is an exceptionally fine collection, and a model for how to nuance the stylistic shifts.
- Stuart Kelly, Scotsman
Robert Crawford’s collection [<i>The Scottish Ambassador</i>] is a book of celebrations… The long, unrhymed lines fizz with welcoming particulars and jolly japes.
- Peter Scupham, Literary Review
The book is trying to sing Scotland, but also Scotland as part of a much wider realm… Cultural references range from Madame Butterfly to ancient Assyria. If it's a vision of Scotland, it's a complex, expansive one.
- Susan Mansfield, Scotsman
Vivid, nuanced and joyous… [<i>The Scottish Ambassador </i>is] a marvellous and marvelling collection, at once worldly and homely.
Times Literary Supplement