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.
| ISBN: | 9780224098076 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 2014 |
| Author: | Robert Crawford |
| Publisher: | Jonathan Cape an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 68 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) |