Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford’s essay ‘Simonides and the War on Terror’ is published by Easel Press along with photographs by Norman McBeath. He teaches at St Andrews.

In the LRB Archive:

• I lived in funeral: Les Murray · 7 February 2013

  • New Selected Poems by Les Murray

• Escaped from the Lab: Peter Redgrove · 21 June 2012

  • A Lucid Dreamer: The Life of Peter Redgrove by Neil Roberts
  • Collected Poems by Peter Redgrove, edited by Neil Roberts

• Bad Dreams: Peter Porter · 6 October 2011

  • The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems by Peter Porter

• Two Poems · 17 February 2011

• Two Poems · 23 September 2010

• Poem: ‘Guide’ · 11 March 2010

• Poem: ‘Really’ · 24 January 2008

• Two Poems · 20 September 2007

• In Bloody Orkney: George Mackay Brown · 22 February 2007

  • George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson
  • The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown edited by Archie Bevan and Brian Murray

• Poem: ‘Beleago’ · 20 April 2006

• Poem: ‘Coming to France’ · 17 November 2005

• Poem: ‘The Exorcist’ · 23 June 2005

• Three Poems · 4 November 2004

• Poem: ‘Omens’ · 19 August 2004

• Three Poems · 24 June 2004

• Locked and Barred: Elizabeth Jennings · 24 July 2003

  • New Collected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings

• Two Poems · 20 March 2003

• Poem: ‘Emily Carr’ · 28 November 2002

• Bard of Friendly Fire: The Radical Burns · 25 July 2002

  • Robert Burns: Poems edited by Don Paterson
  • The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg

• Four Poems · 21 February 2002

• Three poems · 29 November 2001

• Poem: ‘Croy. Ee. Gaw. Lonker. Pit’ · 19 July 2001

• Three Poems · 21 June 2001

• Bad Shepherd: James Hogg · 5 April 2001

  • The Collected Works of James Hogg. Vol. VIII: The ‘Spy’ edited by Gillian Hughes

• Four Poems · 16 November 2000

• Flickering Star: Iain Crichton Smith · 21 January 1999

  • The Leaf and the Marble by Iain Crichton Smith

• Two Poems · 12 November 1998

• Poem: ‘Impossibility’ · 18 September 1997

• Deep Down in the Trash · 21 August 1997

  • God’s Gift to Women by Don Paterson

• Post-Cullodenism · 3 October 1996

  • The Poems of Ossian and Related Works by James Macpherson, edited by Howard Gaskill

• Poem: ‘A Life-Exam’ · 6 June 1996

• Speaking in Tongues · 8 February 1996

  • The Poetry of Scotland: Gaelic, Scots and English 1380-1980 edited and introduced by Roderick Watson

• Poem: ‘Male Infertility’ · 24 August 1995

• Sperm’s-Eye View · 23 February 1995

  • Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams
  • Spring Forest by Geoffrey Lehmann
  • Everything is Strange by Frank Kuppner
  • The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie

• Four Poems · 4 August 1994

• Poem: ‘Conditions of Employment’ · 4 November 1993

• Poem: ‘Jesus Christ endorses the new Hillman Imp’ · 5 August 1993

• Love Poems for Alice with Old Cars · 25 April 1991

• War Poet · 24 May 1990

  • O Choille gu Bearradh/From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems in Gaelic and English by Sorley MacLean

• Cut-Ups · 7 December 1989

  • Perduta Gente by Peter Reading
  • Letting in the rumour by Gillian Clarke
  • Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman by Grace Nichols
  • Studying Grosz on the Bus by John Lucas
  • The Old Noise of Truth by Joan Downar

• Poem: ‘Native Questions’ · 6 July 1989

• Callaloo · 20 April 1989

  • Northlight by Douglas Dunn
  • A Field of Vision by Charles Causley
  • Seeker, Reaper by George Campbell Hay and Archie MacAlister
  • In Through the Head by William McIlvanney
  • The New British Poetry edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D’Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram
  • Complete Poems by Martin Bell, edited by Peter Porter
  • First and Always: Poems for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital edited by Lawrence Sail
  • Birthmarks by Mick Imlah

• MacDiarmid and his Maker · 10 November 1988

  • MacDiarmid by Alan Bold
  • A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Kenneth Buthlay
  • The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie Letters edited by Catherine Kerrigan
  • Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russian by Peter McCarey

• Poem: ‘Robert Crawford’ · 27 October 1988

• Two Poems · 15 September 1988

• Ecclefechan and the Stars · 21 January 1988

  • The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect by George Davie

• Poem: ‘The Dalswinton Enlightenment’ · 21 January 1988

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