Professor Duncan Munro Glen (11 January 1933 – 20 September 2008) was a Scottish poet, literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University. He became known to literature through his first full-length book, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. He published many verse collections, from Kythings and other poems (1969), In Appearances (1971) and Realities Poems (1980) to Selected Poems 1965–1990 (1991), Selected New Poems 1987–1996 (1998) and Collected Poems 1965–2005 (2006). His Autobiography of a Poet appeared with Ramsay Head Press in 1986. He edited Akros magazine through 51 numbers from August 1965 and worked to promote Scottish poets and artists. He was a friend and early champion of Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay, among others. Some work from his several volumes of poetry was translated into Italian.
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11 January 1933
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20 September 2008 (aged 75)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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