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Old World by Robert Crawford Pere Gimferrer All these phases of lifeTraversing 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