His debut work, Society Inebrious, with a lengthy introduction by MacDiarmid, was published in 1965, during Bold's final university year.
This early publication kick-started a prolific poetic career with Bold publishing another three books of verse before the end of the decade, including the ambitious book-length poem The State of the Nation.
He also edited The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse (1970) and published a 1973 biography of Robert Burns.
Their daughter Valentina is a Robert Burns scholar like her father,[3] who teaches at the University of Glasgow.
[4] A lifelong heavy drinker who dealt with the boozy life of the poet in such collections as A Pint of Bitter, Bold died after a short illness in a hospital in Kirkcaldy at the age of 54.