The Scottish Ambassador by Robert Crawford Alice Oswald In addition to those in

In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988)

and the medieval abbess Hildegard von Bingen

—Kaveh Akbar

and celebrating the immediate beauty of the world

with an introduction by Mark Eisner and a foreword by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Scottish Ambassador by Robert Crawford Alice Oswald In addition to those inOne of Scotlands most celebrated poets, Robert Crawford has long been a passionate and articulate ambassador for his country and its culture, its people and its landscape. The Scottish Ambassador fuses individual and communal voices in poems that resonate far beyond their points of origin. Engaging with Zoroastrian, Chinese and Greek as well as with Scottish antecedents, Crawfords poems have an arresting range and a lyrical energy. He negotiates with