The Autobiography of a Poet

1982. 240pp. B&W ills. "The Autobiography of a Poet is a spirited account of the experiences, hopes, and beliefs of an outstanding man of letters who, through his editorship from 1965 to 1983 of the internationally known Scottish poetry magazine Akros, did much to stimulate and support the Scottish Literary Renaissance movement. He has also been active as a small-press publisher, and his finely produced Akros Publications have brought many new and talented writers to the fore. In addition to his own personal reputation as a poet in both Scots and English, Duncan Glen has also written extensively on poetic theories. And the Scottish literary scene, being seldom without controversy, has often been at the center of debate. All these aspects of his career are revealed in this fascinating autobiography, which also tells the story of his childhood in industrial, yet rural, Lanarkshire, his romance, and later family life south of the Border, interspersed with appropriate selections of his own verse." Slight imprint of the dust jacket blurp to the endpapers, otherwise the book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. Unclipped dust jacket in excellent condition with light rubbing.…