Testament

By Robert Crawford

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 Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224098071
• ISBN13: 9780224098076
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"