Douglas Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942. He is a major Scottish poet, editor and critic, and the author of over ten collections of poetry published by Faber & Faber. His widely praised Elegies (1985), a moving account of his first wife’s death, became a critical and popular success and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (now the Costa Prize). Other collections include: Dante’s Drum Kit (1993); The Year’s Afternoon (2000); and The Noise of a Fly (2017), which were all shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His New Selected Poems 1964-2000 was published in 2003. He has also edited several anthologies, including The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (2000). He was Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews from 1991 and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013.
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