Description
The eighth collection from the major Scots poet and biographer
About the Author
Robert Crawford is a poet, biographer, critic and literary historian who has published eight full collections of poetry and many prose books, including Young Eliot. 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.
Reviews
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. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
Robert Crawford's collection [The Scottish Ambassador] 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... [The Scottish Ambassador is] a marvellous and marvelling collection, at once worldly and homely. * Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787330689
Author Robert Crawford
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 880g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 232mm * 8mm