Robert Crawford (Scottish poet)

Robert Crawford (Scottish poet, died 1733) 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. He writes in both Scots and English. Quotes thumb|To love you needs more details than the Book of Kells Ghetto-makars, tae the knackirs' Wi aw yir schemes, yir smug dour dreams O yir ain feet. Yi're beat By yon new Scoatlan loupin tae yir street... "Ghetto-Blastir", st. 1, in Sterts & Stobies (1985) Throw all your stagey chandeliers in wheel-barrows and move them north To celebrate my mother's sewing-machine And her beneath an eighty-watt bulb, pedalling Iambs on an antique metal footplate. "Opera", in A Scottish Assembly (1990) Semiconductor country, land crammed with intimate expanses, Your cities are superlattices, heterojunctive Graphed from the air, your cropmarked farmlands Are epitaxies of tweed. "Scotland", st. 1, in A Scottish Assembly (1990) Among circuitboard crowsteps To be miniaturised is not small-minded. To love you needs more details than the Book of Kells — Your harbours, your photography, your democratic intellect Still boundless, chip of a nation. "Scotland", st. 4, in A Scottish Assembly (1990) Thinking of Helensburgh, J. G. Frazer Revises flayings and human sacrifice; Abo of the Celtic Twilight, St Andrew Lang Posts him a ten-page note on totemism And a coloured fairy book. "Scotland in the 1890s", in A Scottish Assembly (1990) James Murray combs the dialect from his beard And files slips for his massive Dictionary. "Scotland in the 1890s", in A Scottish Assembly (1990) ... Listen — Not to dour centuries of trudging, Marching, and taking orders; Today I have heard the feet of my country Breaking into a run. "Radio Scottish Democracy", in Talkies (1992) External links Category:1959 births Category:Poets from Scotland Category:Living people Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Glasgow alumni Category:Fellows of the British Academy