Book description
Holding in balance the ecological and the technological, ancient and
modern, Full Volume sings languages and cultures, people and
habitats burgeoning on the brink of extinction. From revved-up
battle-cry to nervous whisper, these lyrical poems praise intricate
abundance.
Assured in its rhymes and cadences, Full Volume is often
attentive to poetry in other tongues, not least Gaelic. As their tones
and forms shift from the spiritual to the wry, from haiku to
brosnachadh, the poems' resonance and music build into a
sustained sounding of what it means to live, love, and listen in a
world where 'Nothing is ever single'.
Robert Crawford was born in Lanarkshire in 1959. His first
collection,
A Scottish Assembly
, was published in 1990. His
Selected Poems
(Cape, 2005) was awarded the Poetry Book Society's Special
Commendation. Author of
Scotland's Books
(Penguin, 2007) and co-editor of
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
, Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the
University of St Andrews and has recently written a biography of Robert
Burns,
The Bard
.
