A Scottish Assembly Author:Robert Crawford When a selection of Robert Crawford's poems appeared in New Chatto Poets 2 (1989), they won high praise from a number of reviewers. Now, in A Scottish Assembly, his first full-length collection, the breadth of his gifts is clear to see: a strong, authoritative voice; an enterprising diversity of subject-matter; and above all, a deep and complex ... more »commitment to Scotland as a whole and to particular places within in. Ambitious and distinctive, confident with big historical and scientific themes, this collection will establish Crawford in the front rank of Scottish imaginative writers.
Robert Crawford was born in 1959 at Bellshill, near Glasgow, and studied English at Glasgow University. After research at Oxford, he returned to Scotland, and now teaches at the University of St. Andrews. In 1987 he published The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot (OUP), and in 1988 he won an E.C. Gregory Award. He co-edits the international magazine Verse.
Jacket illustration: Detail from an untitled painting, 1982, by Bruce McLean. By courtesy of the artist and the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.« less