Old World by Robert Crawford Long Pass and the ways in which

and the ways in which people are excluded or made invisible in different cultural and creative industries

to engage issues of globalism

– Ilya Kaminsky

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The Forward Prizes celebrate the best new poetry across 4 categories: Best First Collection

Old World by Robert Crawford Long Pass and the ways in whichTraversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T. S. Eliot 'For intellectual range, emotional depth, and lexical shimmer, Crawford is unsurpassed' Sunday Herald Mixing lyricism, play, and vulnerability, Old World explores the issues facing our planet in the twenty first century, from European war to climate change and AI. From riddles and haikus to