Prof Robert Crawford

Career: poet and critic; Elizabeth Wordsworth jr research fell St Hugh's Coll Oxford 1984-87, Br Acad post doctoral fell Univ of Glasgow 1987-89; Univ of St Andrews: lectr in modern Scottish literature 1989-95, prof 1995-, head Sch of English 2002-05; poetry ed Polygon 1992-99; FRSE 1998, fell English Assoc 1998, FBA 2011; Awards Scot Arts Cncl Book Award 1992 and 1999, selected as one of the best 20 UK New Generation Poets Arts Cncl of Eng 1994, recommendation Poetry Book Soc 1990, 1992, 1996, 2003 and 2005, Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year Award 2007, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award 2009

Books and Publications: Poetry major works: A Scottish Assembly (1990), Sharawaggi (with WN Herbert, 1990), Talkies (1992), Masculinity (1996), The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (ed with Simon Armitage, 1998), Spirit Machines (1999), The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (ed with Mick Imlah, 2000), The Tip of My Tongue (2003), Selected Poems (2005), Apollos of the North (2006), Full Volume (2008), Simonides (2011); Prose works incl: The Savage and the City in the Work of TS Eliot (1987), Devolving English Literature (1992, 2 edn 2000), Identifying Poets (1993), The Modern Poet (2001), Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature (2007), The Bard: Robert Burns - A Biography (2009), The Beginning and the End of the World (2011), On Glasgow and Edinburgh (2012)