Full Volume
  • Published: 15 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780224080873
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $29.99

Full Volume

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1 Sep 2010
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15 Mar 2008
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Listening, love, and a quickened awareness of vulnerability enrich the Scottish poet Robert Crawford's sixth collection of poems.

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'.
  • Published: 15 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780224080873
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Robert Crawford

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.

Also by Robert Crawford

Eliot After The Waste Land
The Scottish Ambassador
Young Eliot
Testament
The Bard
Scotland's Books
Selected Poems
See all

Praise for Full Volume

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

Iain Crichton Smith, 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

Carol Rumens, 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

James Wood, Guardian

One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Scottish literature

Keith Bruce, Herald
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