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Robert Crawford
FRSE FBA
Robert Crawford FRSE FBA
Born	1959 (age 64–65); Bellshill, Scotland
Education	Hutchesons' Grammar School
Alma mater	Glasgow University; Balliol College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Poet, scholar and critic
Awards	Eric Gregory Award; Scottish Arts Council Book Award

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Robert Crawford FRSE FBA (born 1959) is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is emeritus Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.^[1]

Early life[edit]

Robert Crawford was born in Bellshill, Scotland, and grew up in Cambuslang. He was educated at the private Hutchesons' Grammar School and in the same city at Glasgow University, where he received his M.A. degree. He then went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he received his D. Phil.

Family[edit]

His paternal grandfather was a Minister in the Church of Scotland and Crawford considers himself a "Christian with a Presbyterian accent, rather than a Protestant", which he feels has rather assertive overtones in the contemporary West of Scotland.^[2] He has written on the relationship between science and religion^[3] as well as religious poetry.^[4]

Themes[edit]

His main interest is in Post-Enlightenment Scottish literature,^[5] including Robert Burns^[6] and Robert Fergusson,^[7] but he has a keen interest in contemporary poetry,^[8] including Edwin Morgan,^[9] Douglas Dunn^[10] and Liz Lochhead.^[11]

Crawford is a prolific and successful poet and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing.^[12] He has a particular interest in the work of T. S. Eliot^[13] and other aspects of Modernism.

He is interested in the relationship between literature, particularly poetry, and modern science, including information technology.^[14] He says he shares an appreciation of poetry and science as kinds of discovery quickened by observation and imagination. He even goes so far as to claim that it "is part of the poet's delight even duty, to use such [scientific] words and experience in poetry".^[15]

The geography and place names of Scotland feature very prominently in his own poems and he takes a lively interest in the developing politics of contemporary Scotland, as well as science, politics, religion, landscape, and environment and spirituality.^[16] Many of his poems also deal with gender and sex (particularly married sex).^[17]

Language[edit]

Crawford writes in a modern English, with a few nods to dialect words, with an occasional made-up word or a word borrowed from technical science. The main forms he uses are short and lyrical. He has translated from the 17th-century Latin of the Aberdeenshire poet Arthur Johnston.

He was a founder of the international magazine Verse in 1984 and worked as poetry editor for the Edinburgh publisher Polygon in the 1990s. With Simon Armitage, he is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998) and, with Mick Imlah, he co-edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000). He publishes poetry and occasional works of criticism in the London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement.

Awards[edit]

He has won several prizes, notably

1988: Eric Gregory Award
1993: Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Identifying Poets
1999: Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Spirit Machines
2007: Saltire Society's Scottish Research Book of the Year for Scotland's Books; The Penguin History of Scottish Literature,

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In August 2011 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy.^[18]

Works[edit]

The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography. 2021
Young Eliot: A Biography. 2015
"HONEY". Qualm. October 2006.
Textual Non Sense, A Four-Part Trilogy. Boiler House. 2021. ISBN 978-1911343783.
"Eliot After the Wasteland," 2022

Poetry books[edit]

A Scottish Assembly. Chatto & Windus. 1990.
Talkies. Chatto & Windus. 1992. ISBN 978-0-7011-3928-5.
Masculinity. Cape Poetry. 1996. ISBN 978-0-224-04371-7.
Spirit Machines (1999)
The Tip of My Tongue. Jonathan Cape. 2003. ISBN 978-0-224-06968-7.
Full Volume. Jonathan Cape. 2008. ISBN 978-0-224-08087-3.
Testament. Jonathan Cape. 2014. ISBN 978-0224098076.
The Scottish Ambassador. Jonathan Cape. 2018. ISBN 978-1787330689.

Co-authored[edit]

W. N. Herbert (1990). Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots. ISBN 978-0-7486-6066-7.

Edited[edit]

Crawford, Robert; Nairn, Thom, eds. (1991). The Arts of Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748602940.
Robert Crawford, ed. (2006). Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-925812-3.

Anthologies[edit]

Susanne Ehrhardt; Paul May; Lucy Anne Watt; Robert Crawford; Sarah Maguire; Mark Ford (1989). New Chatto Poets: Number Two. Chatto & Windus.

References[edit]

^ [1], School of English, University of St Andrews.
^ Interview in Sunday Morning with Richard Holloway, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 August 2008.
^ The God/Man/World/Triangle: A Dialogue between Science and Religion, Palgrave, 1997.
^ Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology (editor with Meg Bateman and James McGonigal), Saint Andrew Press, 2002.
^ The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s.
^ Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (editor), Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
^ "Heaven Taught Fergusson": Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet, (editor), Tuckwell Press, 2002.
^ Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 1993.
^ About Edwin Morgan (editor with Hamish Whyte), Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
^ Reading Douglas Dunn (editor with David Kinloch), Edinburgh University Press, 1992.
^ Liz Lochhead's Voices (editor with Anne Varty), Edinburgh University Press, 1994.
^ Talking Verse: Interviews with Poets (editor with Henry Hart, David Kinloch, Richard Price), Verse, 1995.
^ The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot, Clarendon Press, 1987.
^ Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford, Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-925812-3.
^ Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, p. 53.
^ The Tip of My Tongue, Cape, 2003.
^ Masculinity, Cape, 1996.
^ "Professor Robert Crawford recognised for high achievement". University of St Andrews.

External links[edit]

"Robert Crawford", Contemporary Writers, British Council
"Biology by Robert Crawford and a response by biologist Rona Ramsay", The Poetry House, St. Andrew’s University
"Robert Crawford", Literary Encyclopedia

[1] [1], School of English, University of St Andrews.

[2] Interview in Sunday Morning with Richard Holloway, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 August 2008.

[3] The God/Man/World/Triangle: A Dialogue between Science and Religion, Palgrave, 1997.

[4] Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology (editor with Meg Bateman and James McGonigal), Saint Andrew Press, 2002.

[5] The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s.

[6] Robert Burns and Cultural Authority (editor), Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

[7] "Heaven Taught Fergusson": Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet, (editor), Tuckwell Press, 2002.

[8] Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry, Edinburgh University Press, 1993.

[9] About Edwin Morgan (editor with Hamish Whyte), Edinburgh University Press, 1990.

[10] Reading Douglas Dunn (editor with David Kinloch), Edinburgh University Press, 1992.

[11] Liz Lochhead's Voices (editor with Anne Varty), Edinburgh University Press, 1994.

[12] Talking Verse: Interviews with Poets (editor with Henry Hart, David Kinloch, Richard Price), Verse, 1995.

[13] The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot, Clarendon Press, 1987.

[14] Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford, Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-925812-3.

[15] Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, p. 53.

[16] The Tip of My Tongue, Cape, 2003.

[17] Masculinity, Cape, 1996.

[18] "Professor Robert Crawford recognised for high achievement". University of St Andrews.

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+'''Robert Crawford''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE|FBA}} (born 1959) is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is emeritus Professor of English at the [[University of St Andrews]].<ref>[http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/], School of English, University of St Andrews.</ref>
 ==Early life==
-He was born in [[Bellshill]] and grew up in [[Cambuslang]]. He was educated at the private  [[Hutchesons' Grammar School]] and in the same city at [[Glasgow University]], where he received his [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|M.A. degree]]. He then went to [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|D. Phil]].
+Robert Crawford was born in [[Bellshill]], Scotland, and grew up in [[Cambuslang]]. He was educated at the private [[Hutchesons' Grammar School]] and in the same city at [[Glasgow University]], where he received his [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|M.A. degree]]. He then went to [[Balliol College, Oxford]], where he received his [[Doctor of Philosophy|D. Phil]].
 ===Family===
-His paternal grandfather was a [[Presbyterian polity#Minister|Minister]] in the [[Church of Scotland]] and he considers himself a "Christian with a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian accent]], rather than a [[Protestant]]", which he feels has rather assertive overtones in the contemporary [[West of Scotland (Scottish Parliament region)|West of Scotland]].<ref>Interview in ''Sunday Morning'' with Richard Holloway, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 August 2008.</ref> He has written on the relationship between science and religion<ref>''The God/Man/World/Triangle: A Dialogue between Science and Religion'', Palgrave, 1997.</ref> as well as religious poetry.<ref>''Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology'' (editor with [[Meg Bateman]] and James McGonigal), Saint Andrew Press, 2002.</ref>
+His paternal grandfather was a [[Presbyterian polity#Minister|Minister]] in the [[Church of Scotland]] and Crawford considers himself a "Christian with a [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian accent]], rather than a [[Protestant]]", which he feels has rather assertive overtones in the contemporary [[West of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|West of Scotland]].<ref>Interview in ''Sunday Morning'' with Richard Holloway, BBC Radio Scotland, 10 August 2008.</ref> He has written on the relationship between science and religion<ref>''The God/Man/World/Triangle: A Dialogue between Science and Religion'', Palgrave, 1997.</ref> as well as religious poetry.<ref>''Scottish Religious Poetry: An Anthology'' (editor with [[Meg Bateman]] and James McGonigal), Saint Andrew Press, 2002.</ref>
 ==Themes==
 His main interest is in [[Scottish Enlightenment|Post-Enlightenment]] Scottish literature,<ref>''The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s''.</ref> including [[Robert Burns]]<ref>''Robert Burns and Cultural Authority'' (editor), Edinburgh University Press, 1996.</ref> and [[Robert Fergusson]],<ref>''"Heaven Taught Fergusson": Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet'', (editor), Tuckwell Press, 2002.</ref> but he has a keen interest in contemporary poetry,<ref>''Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry'', Edinburgh University Press, 1993.</ref> including [[Edwin Morgan (poet)|Edwin Morgan]],<ref>''About Edwin Morgan'' (editor with Hamish Whyte), Edinburgh University Press, 1990.</ref> [[Douglas Dunn]]<ref>''Reading Douglas Dunn'' (editor with David Kinloch), Edinburgh University Press, 1992.</ref> and [[Liz Lochhead]].<ref>''Liz Lochhead's Voices'' (editor with Anne Varty), Edinburgh University Press, 1994.</ref>
-He is a prolific and successful poet himself and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing.<ref>''Talking Verse: Interviews with Poets'' (editor with Henry Hart, David Kinloch, Richard Price), Verse, 1995.</ref> He has a particular interest in the work of [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>''The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot'', Clarendon Press, 1987.</ref> and other aspects of [[Modernism]].
+Crawford is a prolific and successful poet and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing.<ref>''Talking Verse: Interviews with Poets'' (editor with Henry Hart, David Kinloch, Richard Price), Verse, 1995.</ref> He has a particular interest in the work of [[T. S. Eliot]]<ref>''The Savage and the City in the Work of T. S. Eliot'', Clarendon Press, 1987.</ref> and other aspects of [[Modernism]].
-He is interested in the relationship between literature, particularly poetry, and [[modern science]], including Information Technology.<ref>''Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'', edited by Robert Crawford, OUP, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-19-925812-3}}.</ref> He says he shares an appreciation of poetry and science as kinds of discovery quickened by observation and imagination. He even goes so far as to claim that It "is part of the poet's delight even duty, to use such [scientific] words and experience in poetry".<ref>''Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'', p. 53.</ref>
+He is interested in the relationship between literature, particularly poetry, and [[modern science]], including information technology.<ref>''Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'', edited by Robert Crawford, Oxford University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-19-925812-3}}.</ref> He says he shares an appreciation of poetry and science as kinds of discovery quickened by observation and imagination. He even goes so far as to claim that it "is part of the poet's delight even duty, to use such [scientific] words and experience in poetry".<ref>''Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'', p. 53.</ref>
-The geography and place names of Scotland feature very prominently in his own poems and he takes a lively interest in the developing politics of contemporary Scotland, as well as science, politics, religion, landscape, and environment and spirituality,<ref>''The Tip of My Tongue'', Cape, 2003.</ref> his poems deal with gender and sex (particularly married sex).<ref>''Masculinity'', Cape, 1996.</ref>
+The geography and place names of Scotland feature very prominently in his own poems and he takes a lively interest in the developing politics of contemporary Scotland, as well as science, politics, religion, landscape, and environment and spirituality.<ref>''The Tip of My Tongue'', Cape, 2003.</ref> Many of his poems also deal with gender and sex (particularly married sex).<ref>''Masculinity'', Cape, 1996.</ref>
 ==Language==
 Crawford writes in a modern English, with a few nods to dialect words, with an occasional made-up word or a word borrowed from technical science. The main forms he uses are short and lyrical. He has translated from the 17th-century [[Latin]] of the [[Aberdeenshire]] poet [[Arthur Johnston (poet)|Arthur Johnston]].
-He was a founder of the international magazine ''Verse'' in 1984 and worked as poetry editor for the Edinburgh publisher Polygon in the 1990s. With [[Simon Armitage]], he is co-editor of ''The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945'' (1998) and, with [[Mick Imlah]], he co-edited ''The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse'' (2000). He publishes poetry and occasional works of criticism in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' and the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''.
+He was a founder of the international magazine ''Verse'' in 1984 and worked as poetry editor for the Edinburgh publisher Polygon in the 1990s. With [[Simon Armitage]], he is co-editor of ''The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945'' (1998) and, with [[Mick Imlah]], he co-edited ''The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse'' (2000). He publishes poetry and occasional works of criticism in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'' and ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]''.
 ==Awards==
-He has won several prizes, notably <br>
+He has won several prizes, notably
-[[Eric Gregory Award]]<br>
+*1988: [[Eric Gregory Award]]
-[[Scottish Arts Council| Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] for ''Identifying Poets''<br>
+*1993: [[Scottish Arts Council|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] for ''Identifying Poets''
-[[Scottish Arts Council|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] for ''Spirit Machines''<br>
+*1999: [[Scottish Arts Council|Scottish Arts Council Book Award]] for ''Spirit Machines''
-[[Saltire Society]]'s [[Scottish Research Book of the Year]] for ''Scotland's Books; The Penguin History of Scottish Literature,''<br>
+*2007: [[Saltire Society]]'s [[Scottish Research Book of the Year]] for ''Scotland's Books; The Penguin History of Scottish Literature,''
-He is a [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]].
+He is a [[Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (FRSE).
 In August 2011 he was elected a fellow of the [[British Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Robert Crawford recognised for high achievement|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2011/Title,73377,en.html|publisher=University of St Andrews}}</ref>
 ==Works==
+* ''The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography''. 2021
 *''Young Eliot: A Biography''. 2015
-* {{cite journal| url=http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#rcrawford | title=HONEY | work=Qualm|date=October 2006}}
+* {{cite journal| url=http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#rcrawford | title=HONEY | journal=Qualm|date=October 2006}}
+* {{cite book| title= Textual Non Sense, A Four-Part Trilogy| publisher= Boiler House| year=2021| isbn=978-1911343783}}
+* "Eliot After the Wasteland," 2022
 ===Poetry books===
-* {{cite book| title=A Scottish Assembly| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1990}}<ref>''A Scottish Assembly'', Chatto & Windus, 1990.</ref> and this included a poem called ''Cambuslang'')
+* {{cite book| title=A Scottish Assembly| publisher=[[Chatto & Windus]]| year=1990}}
 * {{cite book| title=Talkies| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1992| isbn=978-0-7011-3928-5 }}
 * {{cite book| title=Masculinity| publisher=Cape Poetry| year=1996| isbn=978-0-224-04371-7 }}
 * ''Spirit Machines'' (1999)
-* {{cite book| title=The Tip of My Tongue| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2003| isbn=978-0-224-06968-7 }}
+* {{cite book| title=The Tip of My Tongue| publisher=[[Jonathan Cape]]| year=2003| isbn=978-0-224-06968-7 }}
 * {{cite book| title=Full Volume| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2008| isbn=978-0-224-08087-3 }}
 * {{cite book| title=Testament| publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2014| isbn=978-0224098076}}
+* {{cite book| title=The Scottish Ambassador| publisher= Jonathan Cape| year=2018| isbn=978-1787330689}}
 ===Co-authored===
-* {{cite book| title=Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots| year=1990| author=[[W. N. Herbert]]| isbn=978-0-7486-6066-7 }}
+* {{cite book| title=Sharawaggi: Poems in Scots| year=1990| author=W. N. Herbert| author-link=W. N. Herbert| isbn=978-0-7486-6066-7 }}
 ===Edited===
-*{{cite book |editor1-last=Crawford|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Nairn|editor2-first=Thom|editorlink2=Thom Nairn|title=The Arts of Alasdair Gray|year=1991|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0748602940}}
+*{{cite book |editor1-last=Crawford|editor1-first=Robert|editor2-last=Nairn|editor2-first=Thom|editor-link2=Thom Nairn|title=The Arts of Alasdair Gray|year=1991|location=Edinburgh|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]]|isbn=978-0748602940}}
-* {{cite book| title=Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science| editor=Robert Crawford| place=Oxford| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-925812-3 }}
+* {{cite book| title=Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science| editor=Robert Crawford| place=Oxford| publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-925812-3 }}
 ===Anthologies===
 * {{cite book| title=New Chatto Poets: Number Two | publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1989|author1=Susanne Ehrhardt |author2=Paul May |author3=Lucy Anne Watt |author4=Robert Crawford |author5=Sarah Maguire |author6=Mark Ford }}
-==Reviews==
-His work has met with critical acclaim. <blockquote>
-The voice of this poetry is engaging and likeable.<br>
-– [[Peter McDonald (critic)|Peter McDonald]], [[Literary Review]]
-His Selected Poems is a revelation. Crawford is a very fine poet indeed. This book is aglitter with surprise, with new ways of seeing, of hearing, and of feeling... This astounding collection, rich also in wit, is a book to be homesick for.<br>
-– [[Candia McWilliam]], [[The Scotsman]] <br></blockquote>
-<blockquote>[[Hugh MacDiarmid]] once wrote a poem which contained the line: "Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small ?" Over the past dozen years, Robert Crawford has devoted much industry to soothing MacDiarmid's incredulity. Crawford specialises in poems about Scottish places and people, eulogising not only literary figures but scientists and engineers, such as [[Henry Bell (engineer)|Henry Bell]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]] and [[John Logie Baird]], men associated with railways, steam and primitive models of the television. The native genius blends with native chippiness in lines such as: "When World War II ended / Baird equipment broadcast victory in the Savoy / But not one diner said cheerio when you faded".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview18| title=He likes a downpour | author=James Campbell | work=The Guardian| date=17 May 2003 }}</ref></blockquote>
-<blockquote>Leaving this aside, what's appealing about Crawford is the musicality of his language, the surety of his lines and use of enjambement, all abundantly on display in his new ''Selected Poems''. The pieces included here from his first collection, ''A Scottish Assembly'' (1990), still feel fresh and energetic, the work of a young writer in the best sense – inventive, varied, alive with the possibilities inherent in the act of putting words together.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/september2005/crawford.html |title=''Selected Poems'' by Robert Crawford review |author=Jane Yeh |work=Tower Poetry |date=September 2005 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513215709/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/september2005/crawford.html |archivedate=13 May 2008 }}</ref></blockquote>
-<blockquote>This is primarily a book about contemporary poetry, and what poetry can do now, as seen through its engagement with aspects of contemporary science. It is only fleetingly a book about 'science and poetry', where the relationship between two kinds of discipline might be propounded, and it is all the better for letting such moves remain incidental.<ref>{{cite journal|title= Robert Crawford (ed.), ''Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science'' |url=http://www.bsls.ac.uk/?page_id=45| author=Katy Price| work=The British Society for Literature and Science| date=7 December 2007}}</ref></blockquote>
-Robin Purves has found him a bad poet:
-<blockquote>In his collection of essays, ''Identifying Poets'', Robert Crawford claims to use Bakhtin to examine "the way 20th Century poets construct for themselves an identity which allows them to identify with or to be identified with a particular territory" (1) and how they "come to be taken as spokespeople for these territories". (2) A skim through the contents page of his first book of poems, A Scottish Assembly, ....an orgy of naming which at least suggests, before I have examined a single poem in detail, that Crawford's own poetic project is an attempt to "construct for [himself] an identity which allows [him] to identify with or to be identified with a particular territory" (3), a strategy which ought to result in him being "taken as spokes[person]" (4) for the territory called Scotland, if the argument in Identifying Poets is to be believed. The following essay reads Crawford's poem "Scotland" in an attempt to isolate the points where its rhetoric and syntax go hand-in-hand with a mystificatory and unreflective politics of place.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=13918| title=The Celtic Twiglet: Against Robert Crawford's Scotland| author=Robin Purves| work=[[Angel Exhaust]]|date=December 1995}}</ref></blockquote>
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