About Robert Crawford
Robert Crawford is a scottish poet and writer. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. 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 is a prolific and successful poet himself and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing. He has a particular interest in the work of T. S. Eliot and other aspects of Modernism. He is interested in the relationship between literature, particularly poetry, and modern science, including Information Technology.Browse all poems and texts published on Robert Crawford
