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Listening, love, and a quickened awareness of vulnerability enrich the Scottish poet Robert Crawford's sixth collection of poems.

About the Author

Robert Crawford's seventh collection of poems, Testament, was published by Cape in 2014. His first book was on T. S. Eliot, and his other prose books include The Modern Poet (2001) and an award-winning biography of Robert Burns, The Bard (Cape, 2009). He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Reviews

A poet of great importance... fluent, inventive, funny, crackling with intellectual energy and at the very heart of our own time
*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
*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
*Guardian*

One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Scottish literature
*Herald*