The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry

by Douglas Dunn (Editor), Marion Angus (Contributor)

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Genres: Poetry

424 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn is a Scottish poet, academic and critic.

He was a Professor of English at the University of St Andrews from 1991, becoming Director of the University's Scottish Studies Centre in 1993 until his retirement in September 2008. He is now an Honorary Professor at St Andrews, still undertaking postgraduate supervision in the School of English. He was a member of the Scottish Arts Council (1992–1994). He holds an honorary doctorate (LL.D., law) from the University of Dundee, an honorary doctorate (D.Litt., literature) from the University of Hull and St Andrews. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. Terry Street, Dunn's first collection of poems, appeared in 1969 and received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award as well as a Somerset Maugham Award.

Reviews

[Richard Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've talked with 12 of the poets in this collection, been friends with five, and loved one. Some of the poems are in Gaelic (with translations), some in Scots (without translations), and most in English. I read all the hundred or so poems at least twice (as every poems deserves) and picked out six:

Alas! Poor Queen by Marion Angus (1866-1946)
Slugabed by Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-75)
Cinquevalli by Edwin Morgan (b 1920)
Scotland by Alastair Reid (b 1926)
Chinese Poem by Iain Crichton Smith (1928-98)
Kew Gardens by D M Black (b 1941)

[Mills College Library]

821.9108 F1152d 1992