Robert Crawford FRSE FBA (born 1959) is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic.
He was educated at the private Hutchesons' Grammar School and in the same city at Glasgow University, where he received his M.A.
[11] Crawford is a prolific and successful poet and concerns himself with the nature and processes of creative writing.
He was a founder of the international magazine Verse in 1984 and worked as poetry editor for the Edinburgh publisher Polygon in the 1990s.
He publishes poetry and occasional works of criticism in the London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement.