Robert Crawford

KJ appeared in volume 9 of Penguin Modern Poets, together with the slightly older John Burnside and Robert Crawford .

Besides a few longer poems in English she worked at wee tight hard lyrics the size of a postage stamp in Scots, which she said her readers would simply have to deal with. This...

This volume gained a 1995 Somerset Maugham Award and Geoffrey Faber Award. Robert Crawford called it the best individual collection of poems by a woman living in 20th century Scotland. The book establishes her...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972. Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

Perhaps because WM 's writing career ran alongside that of her more famous husband , and because she published in collaboration with him, her own work has been subordinated to his and for a time...

Critic Robert Crawford remembers her refusal to put on airs or assume the trappings of status: the generous humility of her appearance in a grey raincoat and a knitted hat to read her own poems...