Robert Crawford

Standard Name: Crawford, Robert

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Kathleen Jamie
KJ appeared in volume 9 of Penguin Modern Poets, together with the slightly older John Burnside and Robert Crawford .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Jamie
Besides a few longer poems in English she worked at wee tight hard lyrics the size of a postage stamp
qtd. in
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
9
, 1 Mar. 2001– 2024, pp. 39-40.
40
in Scots, which she said her readers would simply have to deal with. This...
Literary responses Kathleen Jamie
This volume gained a 1995 Somerset Maugham Award and Geoffrey Faber Award. Robert Crawford called it the best individual collection of poems by a woman living in 20th century Scotland. The book establishes her...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Literary responses Willa Muir
Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...
Occupation Elizabeth Jennings
Critic Robert Crawford remembers her refusal to put on airs or assume the trappings of status: the generous humility of her appearance in a grey raincoat and a knitted hat to read her own poems...

Timeline

20 June to 7 July 2016: British poets Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke,...

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20 June to 7 July 2016

British poets Carol Ann Duffy , Gillian Clarke , Imtiaz Dharker , and Jackie Kay , and musician John Sampson , went on a Shore to Shore Nationwide Poetry Tour .
Duffy, Carol Ann. “Five poets go on tour: Carol Ann Duffy’s travel diary begins”. theguardian.com, 20 June 2016.

Texts

Crawford, Robert. “Bad Shepherd”. London Review of Books, pp. 29-30.
McCue, Kirsteen. “Burns, Women and Song”. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, edited by Robert Crawford, University of Iowa Press, 1997, pp. 40-57.
Crawford, Robert. “In Bloody Orkney”. London Review of Books, pp. 23-5.
Burnside, John et al. John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie. Penguin.
Whyte, Hamish. “Liz Lochhead: A Checklist”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 170-91.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 1-16.
Crawford, Robert. “Locked and Barred”. London Review of Books, pp. 31-2.
McDonald, Jan, and Jennifer Harvie. “Putting New Twists to Old Stories: Feminism and Lochhead’s Drama”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 124-47.
Varty, Anne. “Scripts and Performances”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 148-69.
Crawford, Robert. “T. S. Eliot, Poets and Libraries”. The Author, Vol.
29
, pp. 26-9.
Boyd, S. J. “The Voice of Revelation: Liz Lochhead and Monsters”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 38-56.
Crawford, Robert. “Two-Faced Language”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 57-74.