Douglas Dunn
Author/Poet
Agent
Associate Agent
Biography
In a distinguished poetic career, Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year. New Selected Poems 1964-2000 draws substantially upon the entire range of Dunn’s poetry, from Terry Street (l969) to The Year’s Afternoon (2000). He was born in 1942 and grew up in Inchinnan in Renfrewshire. He worked as a librarian in Britain and the United States until 1971, when he became a full-time writer. He has published ten collections of poetry, and has edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry. In 1991 he was appointed Professor in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews.
Publications
Non-Fiction
This beautifully produced collaboration between Norman Ackroyd one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists, and the award-winning poet Douglas Dunn takes the reader on a journey around some of the wilder coastal regions in Britain.
Other
Fiction
Short stories.
Short stories.
