Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (9 December 1929 – 9 February 2009) was a South African poet, critic, playwright and English professor. He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works. Born on 9 December 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938. He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University."Maclennan, Donald (Alasdair Calum)"
article, ''Student Encyclopedia of African Literature'', by Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 , retrieved via Google Books on 13 February 2009 Maclennan's academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town.Loewe, Mike
"Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79"
article, 12 February 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article "was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009", according to the Web page, retrieved 13 February 2009 He taught in both South Africa and the United States. He began teaching at Rhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years, although he officially retired in 1994. In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade."RIP Don Maclennan: 1929 – 2009. February 10th, 2009 by Ben – Editor", article at Book SA News website, retrieved 13 February 2009
In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry. In his last decade, Maclennan had motor-neuron disease. He suffered a stroke in January 2009, although his mind was not affected by it. He died on 9 February 2009, in

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Bibliography

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Poetry

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

: ''In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim'', A.A. Balkema, combining Maclennan's poetry and the music of Norbert Nowotny *

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

: ''Life Songs'', Bateleur Press * ''Bateleur Poets'', "Bateleur Poets"
at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009 *

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is consid ...

: ''Reckonings'', New Africa Books, *

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

: ''Collecting Darkness'', Justified Press, *

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

: ''Letters: New Poems'', Carrefour Press, *

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

: ''The Poetry Lesson: New Poems'' Snailpress, *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: ''Solstice: Poems'', , winner of South Africa's Sanlam Literary Award for 1997 *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

: ''Of Women and Some Men'' with George Coutouvidis, Firfield Poetry Press, *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: ** ''Notes from a Rhenish Mission'', Firfield Press, ** ''A Brief History of Madness in the Eastern Cape'', with drawings by Siddis Firfield, Firfield Press, *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

: ''Rock paintings at Salem'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

: ''The Road to Kromdraai'', Publisher Snailpress, *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

: ''The Dinner Party'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

: ''A Letter to William Blake'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

: ''Under Compassberg'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: ''Excavations'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: ''Reading the Signs'', Carapace *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: ''The necessary salt'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

: ''Selected Poems'', Quartz Press *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: ''The owl of Minerva'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: ''Through a Glass Darkly'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: ''Dress Rehearsal'', self-published, Rhodes University GSU *

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

: ''Collected Poems'', Print Matters Heritage Press (ed. Dan Wylie) ISBN 978-0-987009562

Other works

* ''An Enquiry into the Voyage of the Santiago'', a play * ''Job Mava'', a play, written and performed in 1972/3 by The Ikhwezi Players, published 1981/2 * ''My Childhood'', adaptation of Maxim Gorky's play, performed in 1975 by The Ikhwezi Players *

: Editor, with Malcolm Hacksley, ''A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone'', publisher: Ad Donker, * ''Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler'' Publisher: D. Philip, * Sarah Christie, Don Maclennan, Geoffrey Hutchings, ''Perspectives on South African Fiction'', Publisher Ad. Donker, "Perspectives on South African Fiction"
at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Maclennan, Don 1929 births 2009 deaths 21st-century South African poets Academic staff of Rhodes University 20th-century South African poets South African male poets 20th-century South African male writers 21st-century South African male writers