Produced in a limited edition of twenty-five copies, Holy Rood is Robert Crawford’s verse translation of the untitled Old English poem usually called by scholars ‘The Dream of the Rood’. The translation and introduction are published in a boxed set featuring seven hand-printed, signed and numbered original black and white photographs by Norman McBeath.

‘Though it begins arrestingly with the voice of a dreamer, much of the poem is spoken by the tree that was felled to make the cross on which Christ was crucified. With its troubled, wounded, talking tree, this is a poem of God’s suffering creation, of longing, of the natural world, and, ultimately, of celestial hope. Linked alike to Scotland’s Ruthwell Cross and Holyrood, to Old English literature, and to international Christendom, the medieval original is one of the world’s greatest visionary poems. This twenty-first-century Holy Rood is at once majestic and resonant, its poetic power counterpointed with striking images from an outstanding contemporary photographer.’ Robert Crawford

Published by

Easel Press, 2017

Pages

20 loose leaf

Dimensions

420 × 297mm

ISBN

9780955285967

Printed on

Hahnemühle matt fine art photo rag 308 gsm

Edition of

25

Design

Designed and set by Robert Dalrymple in Henrik Kubel’s Antwerp typeface

Presented in

Black buckram archival solander box with silver gilt title

Signed

Colophon signed by poet and artist