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...
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