Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot was published in 2015; his new book, Chinese Makars, inspired by the Scottish photographer John Thomson, is due this summer.

In the LRB Archive:

• He was the man: Ezra Pound · 30 June 2016

  • Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and his Work: Vol. III: The Tragic Years, 1939-72 by A. David Moody

• Lithe Pale Girls: Richard Aldington · 22 January 2015

  • Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover 1911-29 by Vivien Whelpton

• Poem: ‘Camera Obscura’ · 8 January 2015

• After the Referendum · 9 October 2014

• Poem: ‘Levity’ · 21 August 2014

• 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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