{"id":8170,"date":"2025-03-11T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8170"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:08:17","slug":"robert-crawford","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/robert-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Crawford was born in Lanarkshire. His collections <em>A Scottish Assembly<\/em> (1990) and <em>Talkies<\/em> (1992) were published by Chatto &amp; Windus. Subsequent titles, published by Cape Poetry, include: <em>Masculinity<\/em> (1996); <em>Spirit Machines<\/em> (1999); <em>The Tip of My Tongue<\/em> (2003); <em>Full Volume<\/em> (2008), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; <em>Testament<\/em> (2014); and <em>The Scottish Ambassador<\/em> (2018). <em>Old World<\/em> is published by Cape Poetry in 2025. He is the author of <em>Scotland&#8217;s Books<\/em> (Penguin, 2007) and co-editor of <em>The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse<\/em>; and has published major biographies of Robert Burns and T. S. Eliot. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He has won two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards as well as the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Aisha Farr<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Crawford was born in Lanarkshire. His collections A Scottish Assembly (1990) and Talkies (1992) were published by Chatto &amp; Windus. Subsequent titles, published by Cape Poetry, include: Masculinity (1996); Spirit Machines (1999); The Tip of My Tongue (2003); Full Volume (2008), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Testament (2014); and The Scottish Ambassador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10706,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8170","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}