Frank Kuppner (born 1951 in
Glasgow
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) is a Scottish
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
and novelist.
Life
He has been Writer in Residence at various institutions, currently at
University of Glasgow
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Strathclyde University
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Awards
* 2008 Creative Scotland Award
* 1995 McVitie’s Writer of the Year Award, for ''Something Very Like Murder''
* 1984 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for ''A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty''
* 1972 AKROS Hugh Macdiarmid 80th Birthday Poetry Competition
Works
Poetry
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Reviews
''A God's Breakfast'' is three books in one. The first and longest is "The Uninvited Guest", a sequence of hundreds of cod-classical epigrams and fragments; the third, "What Else is There?" a collection of 120 shorter poems. The rest of the volume is given up to "West Åland, or Five Tombeaux for Mr Testoil". At 48 pages, "West Åland" is about as long as The Waste Land and Four Quartets combined and is, I'd reckon, the most protracted dance ever made by one poet upon the grave of another.
References
External links
"James Keery reviews ''The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry''", ''Jacket 30''
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Living people
Scottish poets
1951 births