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Biography published to mark the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns s birth

About the Author

Robert Crawford was born in Lanarkshire in 1959. His first collection, A Scottish Assembly, was published in 1990. His Selected Poems (Cape, 2005) was awarded the Poetry Book Society's Special Recommendation. Author of Scotland's Books (Penguin, 2007) and co-editor of The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews.