Crawford, Robert, 1959-....

Crawford was an instructor at the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades.

From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1892. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226041664

R. Crawford was a grazier at Hill End, Blacktown, N.S.W.

From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225769632

Verse is an independent literary journal founded in 1984 at Oxford University by Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, and David Kinloch and is currently published by the University of Georgia with assistance from The College of William and Mary and the University of Richmond, VA. Former editors include John Burnside and Lilas Fraser and in 1994, Brian Henry and Andrew Zawacki became the lead editors of Verse.

Verse focuses on international poetry, essays, reviews, and interviews and often presents feature issues on themes or countries. Past features include younger Slovene poets, Australian poetry, Scottish poetry, younger American poets, Mexican poetry, Irish Women poets, Indian poetry, and Russian poetry. The journal has published poems from Ireland, England, Scotland, Russia, Australia, Germany, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, Cuba, South Africa, Canada, Holland, Sweden, Serbia, Norway, Slovenia, the United States, and other countries. Seamus Heaney said Verse is "One of the most valuable poetry magazines published in the English speaking world."

Robert Crawford was born in Belshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1959 and was educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. In 1988, he won the Eric Gregory Award and in 1994 was selected for The New Generation Poet's Promotion. Crawford won the Scottish Arts Council Book Award twice and was recommended for the Poetry Book Society. He is the author of several collections of poetry including A Scottish Assembly (1990), Talkies (1992), Masculinity (1996), Spirit Machines (1999), The Tip of My Tongue (2003), Full Volume (2008). Crawford works as a professor at the University of St. Andrews.

Henry Hart received a B.A. from Darmouth College and a philosophy degree from Oxford University. In 2000 he was the runner up for the Southern Book Critics' Circle Award. Hart's books include: The Ghost Ship (1990), The Rooster Mask (1998), and the Background Radiation (2007). Hart's poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, New Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker Poetry, and Best American Poetry.

David Kinloch was born in Glasglow in 1959 and attended Glasgow and Oxford Universities. He is a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award. Kinloch's poetry books include Dustie-Fute (1992), Paris –Forfar (1994), UnTour d'Ecosse (2001), and In My Father's House (2005). After leaving Verse he edited Southfields with Richard Price and also published Informationists pamphlets.

Brian Henry received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary and M.F.A. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award in 2003 and the Cecil B. Hemeley Memorial Award in 2008. Henry is the author of American Incident (2002), Astronaut (2002), Graft (2003), On James Tate (2004), The Verse Book on Interviews (2005), Quarantine (2006), The Shipping Point (2007), and In the Unlikely Event of a Water (2007). Henry's poetry appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Canary, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, and The Paris Review. Henry teaches at the University of Richmond.

Andrew Zawacki was born in 1972. In 1995 Andrew Zawacki edited Festschrift for Gustaf Soben with Andrew Joron and The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft, and Culture with Brian Henry. Zawacki's first book, By Reason of Breakings, won the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series in 2001. Zawacki's second book, Ananbranch, won the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award in 2002. In 2005 Zawacki became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and currently teaches at the University of Georgia.

From the guide to the Verse. Records, 1984-2008, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)