Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
Poet and critic
Scottish poet and critic. Collected poems include Terry Street and Elegies, for which he won the 1985 Whitbread Prize.
It is not good to feel you have no future.From ‘Washing the Coins’ in St Kilda’s Parliament (London: Faber & Faber, 1981)
My clotted hands turned coins to muddy copper.
They ruined us. They conquered continents.From ‘Empires’ in Douglas Dunn: New and Selected Poems 1966-1988 (New York: The Ecco Press, 1989)
We filled their uniforms. We cruised the seas.
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
by Norman McBeath
bromide fibre print, 3 April 2003
NPG x126404
© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London
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