Douglas Dunn
Author/Poet
Books
Books
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.
Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
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BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS 1995 Faber | Short stories. |
THE OXFORD BOOK OF SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES (EDITOR) 1995 Oxford University Press | Short stories. |
SECRET VILLAGES 1985 Faber | |
EUROPA'S LOVER 1982 Bloodaxe |
Non-Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
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A LINE IN THE WATER BY NORMAN ACKROYD & DOUGLAS DUNN 2009 Royal Academy of Arts | 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. |
GARDEN HINTS 1993 Carniverous Arpeggio Press | |
AUSTRALIAN DREAM-ESSAY 1993 Carniverous Arpeggio Press | |
SCOTLAND: AN ANTHOLOGY (EDITOR) 1991 HarperCollins | |
ANDROMACHE/RACINE (TRANSLATOR) 1990 Faber | |
THE POLL TAX: THE FISCAL FAKE (Counterblasts' Series) 1990 Chatto | |
UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DOUGLAS DUNN ON PHILIP LARKIN 1987 Edinburgh University Press | |
GOING TO ABERLEMNO 1987 Book Trust Scotland | |
TO BUILD A BRIDGE 1982 Lincolnshire & Humberside Arts |
Other
| Publication Details | Notes |
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ESSAYS 2003 Faber | |
TWO DECADES OF IRISH WRITING (EDITOR) 1975 Carcanet | |
A CHOICE OF BYRON'S VERSE (EDITOR) 1974 Faber | |
LOVE OR NOTHING 1974 Faber | |
THE HAPPIER LIFE 1972 Faber |
Poetry
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
NOISE OF A FLY 2017 Faber | |
NEW SELECTED POEMS 1964 - 2000 2003 Faber | |
THE YEAR'S AFTERNOON 2000 Faber | |
THE DONKEY'S EARS 2000 Faber | |
DANTE'S DRUM KIT 1993 Faber | |
THE FABER BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCOTTISH POETRY (EDITOR) 1992 Faber | |
NORTHLIGHT 1988 Faber | |
SELECTED POEMS 1986 Faber | |
ELEGIES 1985 Faber | |
A RUMOURED CITY: NEW POETS FROM HULL (EDITOR) 1982 Bloodaxe | |
ST KILDA'S PARLIAMENT 1981 FABER | |
THE POETRY OF SCOTLAND (EDITOR) 1979 Batsford | |
BARBARIANS 1979 FABER | |
WHAT IS TO BE GIVEN: POEMS OF DELAMORE SCHWARTZ (EDITOR) 1976 Carcanet | |
NEW POETRY: THE PEN ANTHOLOGY (EDITOR) 1973 Faber | |
TERRY STREET 1968 Faber |
PRIZES AND AWARDS
1968 Eric GregoryAward
1970 Scottish Arts Council Book Award - TERRY STREET
1972 Somerset Maugham Award - TERRY STREET
1975 Scottish Arts Council Book Award - LOVE OR NITHING
1981 Hawthornden Prize - ST. KILDA'S PARLIAMENT
1985 Whitbread Book of the Year - ELEGIES
1989 Cholmondeley Award
2003 OBE
2013 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry