Language
Crawford writes in a modern English, with a few nods to dialect words, with an occasional made-up word, or one borrowed from technical science. The main forms he uses are short and lyrical. He has translated from the 17th Century Latin of the Aberdeenshire poet Arthur Johnston.
He was a founder of the international magazine Verse in 1984, and worked as poetry editor for the Edinburgh publisher Polygon in the 1990s. With Simon Armitage, he is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 (1998) and with Mick Imlah he co-edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000). He publishes poetry, and occasional works of criticism in the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.
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