Best Selling Books by Robert Crawford

A study of the Scottish female writer and dramatist Liz Lochhead. It examines the full range of her work and supplies a variety of contexts in which her work can be read, including feminist ideology and theatre history. It also contains a full bibliography of her work and new material.

A study that examines the way 20th-century poets identify themselves with particular territories, constructing and reconstructing territorial identities. From America to Australia, and from Scotland and England to the Caribbean, it looks in detail at the poetry of six international poets--Robert Frost, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Les Murray, John Ashbery, and Frank Kuppner--as well as discussing th Scots work of Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, and Edwin Morgan, and the English-language work of Peter Reading, Judith Wright, and Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Explores how the 1314 Scottish victory has been interpreted and reinterpreted from medieval epics through the Romantic period of Robert Burns, to the 21st century when it has been linked to Scots independence from Great Britain.

Choices. We¿re surrounded by a million of them every day; big and small. We want to make excellent decisions, but under pressure it doesn¿t always seem that easy.This book will help you:¿Understand how minor decisions can alter your life forever ¿Master the six-steps to superior assessment skills ¿Explore the application process that will revolutionize your days for amazing results.Transform your world with the proven formula that thousands of individuals and organizations have discovered and unleashed.Laugh, cry and learn as John Robert Crawford shares real life stories and demonstrates The Incredible Power of CHOICE.

''For intellectual range, emotional depth, and lexical shimmer, Crawford is unsurpassed among recent Scottish poets'' Sunday Herald Writing out of older Scottish traditions that are ludic, intellectually deft and linguistically complex, Robert Crawford also stands with fellow poets, Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn and Simon Armitage as a contemporary master. Nimbly traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection featuring the traditional forms of haiku and riddle, versions of Mexican, Chinese, Old English and Greek poems, a tincture of Scots work, and many pieces that present an ageing planet dealing with twenty-first-century issues from European war to climate change and AI. These poems speak both of the menaced plenitude of living beings, and of frailties associated with growing old. Part of the book is given over to voices of creatures from the non-human world, part to human voices, but boundaries between these categories become mischievously and disconcertingly unstable. Mixing lyricism, play, and a sense of vulnerable interdependence, Old World draws on both Western and Eastern cultures to articulate through sound, lineation, and silence a sense of the sacredness of life on earth.

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Scots translations of epitaphs by the ancient Greek poet Simonides, composed for civilians and soldiers killed during the Persian Wars, coupled with black and white photographs.

Two Tales, Two Heroes, Two Different Centuries, One City.In "A Ghost For Christmas", we meet Scott Carson, the hero of Tatterdemalion just before the events of that epic. A routine photo portrait in the Battery by Carson''s mentor Jacob Riis uncovers a shock almost as chilling as its leading to them being chased by a serial killer. And involved in the case are legends Joseph Pulitzer, Nellie Bly and Etta Angell Wheeler.In "A Thug''s Epiphany", Joe Roman, ex Soviet-NYPD cop, is introduced. It''s Christmas eve in Brighton Beach and Roman has a mission- give his puppy Gawky away to a good home. But a call from a Russian mobster to whom he''s long owed a favor succeeds his mission for one far deadlier. His daughter is missing and Roman must go through another mob family to get her back. But as Christmas Eve wears on, Roman and his canine sidekick realize in Brighton Beach nothing is as it seems.And looming almost like a character in itself is the majestic Brooklyn Bridge that unites these two heroes even though they are separated by 129 years in time.