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Poems explore the author's relationship with his wife and portray his grief after her death
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About the Author
Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942 and lived there until he married at the age of twenty-two. After working as a librarian in Scotland and Akron, Ohio, he studied English at Hull University, graduating in 1969. He then worked for eighteen months in the university library after which, in 1971, he became a freelance writer. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.
As well as ten collections of poetry, including Elegies (1985), The Year's Afternoon and The Donkey's Ears (both 2000), Douglas Dunn has written several radio and television plays, including 'Ploughman's Share' and 'Scotsman by Moonlight'. He has also edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000).
Douglas Dunn has won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and has twice been awarded prizes by the Scottish Arts Council. In 1981 he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for St Kilda's Parliament. In January 1986 he was overall winner of the 1985 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for his collection Elegies.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0571135706
- ISBN 13 9780571135707
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages64
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