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

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Testament
• Author: Robert Crawford
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780224098076
• ISBN: 0224098071
• ID: 02537053
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 102 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 137 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. July 2014

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