Douglas Dunn

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic.

[1] He was educated at the Scottish School of Librarianship, and worked as a librarian before he started his studies in Hull.

He is now an Honorary Professor at St Andrews, still undertaking postgraduate supervision in the School of English.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1981, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.

Evoking his time working in Hull, the poems take as their inspiration working class life on a street of back-to-backs just off the Beverley Road (the street remains today, but all of the houses have been replaced).