Testament

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To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most. In his seventh full-length collection of poems Robert Crawford writes of love, loss, belief, and commitment. Whether in intimate erotic lyrics or in a sustained engagement with the politics of Scottish independence he writes with passion, wit, and assurance about struggles to pass on values and treasures. The book opens with a sequence of love poems, and closes with Testament, a startlingly fresh gathering of deftly rhymed paraphrases based on the New Testament. Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in<i>Testament</i>how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.

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Poet and biographer<b>Robert Crawfords</b>books from Cape include<i>Young Eliot</i>(2015), and<i>Testament</i>(2014). He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews.

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