Old World by Robert Crawford #foliosociety I'll take hold of my

I'll take hold of my story and thrive

a few little brown spots along the very top edge otherwise clean bright and square

set in an East-Asian inspired world

) Wine was long used by the gods

Sunday Telegraph

Old World by Robert Crawford #foliosociety I'll take hold of my'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