Douglas Dunn was born in Renfrewshire in 1942. He is the author of many acclaimed books of poetry and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year for Elegies (Faber & Faber, 1985). He is Professor of English and Director of the Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University.
The poems below were recorded at 'The Friendship of Poets' symposium in November 2006.
Douglas Dunn talking about Kathleen Jamie
© Douglas Dunn and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry 2006.