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Full Volume

Full Volume

by RobertCrawford (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $14.60
Synopsis

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'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 06 Mar 2008
ISBN 10: 0224080873
ISBN 13: 9780224080873
Book Overview: Listening, love, and a quickened awareness of vulnerability enrich the Scottish poet Robert Crawford's sixth collection of poems.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Poet and biographer Robert Crawford's books from Cape include Young Eliot (2015), and Testament (2014). He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.