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The eighth collection from the major Scots poet and biographer
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 piano and when to ring out the forte...
This is an exceptionally fine collection, and a model for how to
nuance the stylistic shifts.
*Scotsman*
Robert Crawford’s collection [The Scottish Ambassador] is a book of
celebrations… The long, unrhymed lines fizz with welcoming
particulars and jolly japes.
*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.
*Scotsman*
Vivid, nuanced and joyous… [The Scottish Ambassador is] a
marvellous and marvelling collection, at once worldly and
homely.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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