Professor Duncan Munro Glen (11 January 1933 – 20 September 2008) was a Scottish poet, literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University. He became known with his first full-length book, Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. His many verse collections included from Kythings and other poems (1969), In Appearances (1971), Realities Poems (1980), Selected Poems 1965–1990 (1991), Selected New Poems 1987–1996 (1998) and Collected Poems 1965–2005 (2006). His Autobiography of a Poet appeared with Ramsay Head Press in 1986. He edited Akros magazine for 51 numbers from August 1965 to October 1983.[1] His work to promote Scottish poets and artists included Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay, among others. Some of his poetry was translated into Italian.
Glen then moved into graphic-design education, first at Watford College of Technology. After a brief spell as an editor in Glasgow with Robert Gibson & Sons Ltd, educational publishers, at what was to become Preston Polytechnic, he was appointed Professor of Visual Communication at what would be Nottingham Trent University. Glen served on the Council of National Academic Awards.
Glen founded Akros Publications in 1965, to publish Scottish poetry and literary criticism; from 1965 to 2006 over 250 works appeared under the Akros imprint. They included poetry, critical and historical studies, Akros magazine (51 issues) and Zed 2 0 (19 numbers), and fiction by Robert McLellan, John Herdman and others. His aim as editor of Akros magazine was to publish modern Scottish poetry in Scots and English, cutting across the "fighting cliques" of the time.[1] Alongside his own poetry, he produced several studies of Scottish literature, anthologies, and a range of publications in other areas, including a history of typography, the definitive history of Cambuslang, a place for which he retained a affection, and an illustrated history of Kirkcaldy, where he latterly lived.
Glen was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1977. In 1974 and 1998 he received awards from the Scottish Arts Council "for services to Scottish literature" and "in recognition of his many years as a publisher and editor and entrepreneurial activities for Scottish literature". In 1991 he received the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award "in recognition of long and devoted services to poetry". In 2000 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by Paisley University.
21 poems after drawings, etc. by George Hollingworth, et al., 2000
Antigruppo Palermo, gruppoanti, 1974
Apprentice angel/Hugh MacDiarmid, 1963
Autobiography of a poet, 1986
Bibliography of Scottish poets from Stevenson to 1974 compiled with an introduction by Duncan Glen with a preface by Hugh MacDiarmid, 1974
Bonnie fechter [sound recording]: Alexander Scott 1920–1989, 1990
Bright they shine: Cambuslang poetry/by Patrick Hamilton... et al.; with an introduction by Duncan Glen, 2001
Buits and wellies, or, Sui generis a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with illustrations by George Hollingworth, 1976
Christmas fable for Margaret Duncan Glen
Cled score poems Duncan Glen, 1974
Clydesdale a sequence o poems by Duncan Glen, 1971
Clydeside kinsfolk: the lives and times of a typically extended Lowland *Scottish family 1694 to 1994: Cambuslang, *Rutherglen & East Kilbride/by Duncan Glen, 1995
Collected poems, 1965–2005/by Duncan Glen, 2006
Echoes: frae classical and Italian poetry/by Duncan Glen, 1992
Elegies: a selection from 1966–2003/by Duncan Glen, 2006
Essay in response to critical essays on contemporary Scottish poetry in Akros magazine/George Bruce; edited by Duncan Glen, 2005
European poetry in Scotland an anthology of translations edited by Peter France & Duncan Glen, 1989
Evergreen song lyrics : a selection from the poetry of the British Isles & America/chosen by Duncan Glen with commentaries, 2000
Extended Glen family of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland & their descendants 1694–1998/by Duncan Glen, 1998
Familiar epistles between William Hamilton of Gilbertfield in Cambuslang and Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh: with an extract from William Hamilton of Gilbertfield's version of Blind Harry's Wallace/edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen; with prefaces by R. K. D. Milne and Neil McCallum, 2000
Feres poems by Duncan Glen, 1971
Five literati an anon (Scot lit. anti lit. pop) symposium created by Duncan Glen, 1976
Follow! Follow! Follow! and other poems by Duncan Glen, 1976
Forward from Hugh MacDiarmid, or, Mostly out of Scotland being fifteen years of Duncan Glen, Akros Publications 1962–1977 by Duncan Glen with a check-list of publications, August 1962 – August 1977, 1977
Four Scottish poets of Cambuslang & Dechmont Hill, 1626–1990: Patrick Hamilton, Minister at Cambuslang 1626–1645, Lieutenant William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, Cambuslang [c. 1665–1751], John Struthers, born at East Kilbride, and poet of Dechmont [1776–1850 and Duncan Glen, 1996
Friars of Berwick: a narrative poem in Scots, edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen, 2002
Gaitherings poems in Scots by Duncan Glen, 1977
Geeze! a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen, 1985
Graphic lines, 1975
Historic Fife Murders at Falkland, St. Andrews & Magus Muir: journeys through Fife between Forth and Tay/by Duncan Glen, 2002
Hugh Glen and the Victoria Drinking Fountain, Cambuslang: a family memoir, 2005
Hugh MacDiarmid & Duncan Glen: a prospect from Brownsbank: poems, biographical notes and a bibliography, 1998
Hugh MacDiarmid, a critical survey edited by Duncan Glen, 1972
Hugh MacDiarmid, an essay for 11 August 1977
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance, 1964
Hugh MacDiarmid, or, Out of Langholm and into the World
Hugh MacDiarmid: rebel poet and prophet. A short note on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 1962
In place of wark, or, Man of art: a sequence in thirty pairts, 1977
In search of Serif Books, the Stanley Press & Joseph Mardel, publisher of Maurice Lindsay's Hurlygush and Sydney Goodsir Smith's Under the Eildon tree, & taking serious note of William Maclellan & Callum Macdonald: with photographs and illustrations, 2006
In the small hours, or, To be about to be a poem in thirty parts, 1984
Individual and the twentieth-century Scottish literary tradition, 1971
Inextinguishable part 14 of realities poems, 1977
Ither sangs, 1978
John Atman and other poems; with an introduction by Leonard Mason, 2001
Journey into Scotland: poems, 1991
Journey past – a sequence of poems, 1971
Keepsake for New Year 2000 from Akros Publications: poems, 2000
Kirkcaldy: a new illustrated history, 2004
Kirkcaldy: a photographic guide and introduction to the history of the town, 2005
Lanark & the Falls of Clyde...: Lanarkshire past and present, a rediscovery & anthology, 2001
Literary masks of Hugh MacDiarmid. [Illustrated], 1964
Long Calderwood, old East Kilbride; and its associations with John & William Hunter and the poetry of Anne Hunter, Joanna Baillie & John Struthers, with a selection of poems by Anne Hunter and Joanna Baillie, 2005
Makars' walk. Walks in the old town of Edinburgh, with an anthology of poetry selected and walked by Duncan Glen, 1990
Morning taken with the sun : an anthology of poems in short shining stanzas/[selection and design, Duncan Glen], 2001
Mr & Mrs J. L. Stoddart at home, a poem by Duncan Glen, 1975
Nation in a parish: a new historical prospect of Scotland from the parish of Cambuslang, 1995
Scottish literature: a new history from 1299 to 1999, 1999
Scottish poetry now as seen from London by Simon Foster, 1966
Seasons of delight: an anthology of poems on gardens, flowers, greenwoods & the sea/compiled and edited by Duncan Glen & Margaret Glen, 1998
Selected elegies: poems with photographs/by Duncan Glen, 2001
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen, 1969
Selected new poems: nineteen-eighty-seven to nineteen-ninety-six, 1998
Selected poems 1965–1990, 1991
Selected Scottish and other essays/by Duncan Glen; with an introduction by John Herdman, 1999
Seventeen poems, 1997
Situations – a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with illustrations by Derek Carruthers, 1984
Something of the night and of the sun/[selection and design, Duncan Glen] 2001
Splendid Lanarkshire: past and present: a rediscovery and anthology of prose & verse/written and compiled by Duncan Glen, 1997
Spoiled for choice poems by Duncan Glen, 1976
The State of Scotland, a poem by Duncan Glen, 1983
Stevenson's Scotland/edited by Tom Hubbard & Duncan Glen, 2003
Stones of time. A sequence of poems by Duncan Glen, 1984
Sunny summer Sunday afternoon in the park? 1969
Tales to be told – poems by Duncan Glen, 1987
Ten bird sangs by Duncan Glen, 1978
Ten sangs by Duncan Glen, 1978
Ten sangs of luve by Duncan Glen, 1978
"This is no can of beans": a prospect from the window of a small-press publisher by Duncan Glen], 1999
Three/trittico translators of poems by Duncan Glen: Nat Scammacca, Enzo Bonventre, Marco Scalabrino: Scots and English, Italiano and Siciliano, 2001
Traivellin man. A sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with frontispiece by John Hodkinson, 1977
Trittico scozzese : Duncan Glen, J. K. Annand, Hugh MacDiarmid/cura e traduzione dallo Scots di Enzo Bonventre; traduzione in siciliano di Marco Scalabrino, 2001
Turn of the earth a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen, 1985
Twenty of the best: [and one more for good measure]: a Galliard anthology of contemporary Scottish poetry/edited by Duncan Glen ; with drawings by Alfons Bytautas, 1990
Unnerneath the bed/a poem by Duncan Glen, 1970
Upper Clydesdale...: Lanarkshire past and present, a rediscovery & anthology/by Duncan Glen, 2001
Weddercock; or, Tale of the ill-taen caller at Easter Greenlees Ferm on 3 August 1910 a poem by Duncan Glen, 1976
Whither Scotland? a prejudiced look at the future of a nation. Edited by Duncan Glen, 1971
William Maclellan's Scottish journal/images chosen and introduced by Duncan Glen, 2004
William Williamson: Kirkcaldy architect by Duncan Glen, 2008
Winter: a poem: and other verses/by James Thomson; edited with an introductory essay by Duncan Glen, 2002
Reviewsedit
N. S. Thompson, 1980, review of Realities Poems: Cencrastus No. 4, Winter 1980–1881, p. 40, ISSN 0264-0856
Cairns Craig, 1984, Lourd on My Hert, which includes a review of The State of Scotland: A Poem. Sheila G. Hearn, ed., Cencrastus No. 15, New Year 1984, pp. 54 and 55, ISSN 0264-0856
Referencesedit
^ abDuncan Glen, "AKROS", in Parker, Geoff (ed.), Cencrastus No. 20, Spring 1985, pp. 32–33, ISSN 0264-0856
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duncan, glen, professor, duncan, munro, glen, january, 1933, september, 2008, scottish, poet, literary, editor, emeritus, professor, visual, communication, nottingham, trent, university, became, known, with, first, full, length, book, hugh, macdiarmid, scottis. Professor Duncan Munro Glen 11 January 1933 20 September 2008 was a Scottish poet literary editor and Emeritus Professor of Visual Communication at Nottingham Trent University He became known with his first full length book Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance His many verse collections included from Kythings and other poems 1969 In Appearances 1971 Realities Poems 1980 Selected Poems 1965 1990 1991 Selected New Poems 1987 1996 1998 and Collected Poems 1965 2005 2006 His Autobiography of a Poet appeared with Ramsay Head Press in 1986 He edited Akros magazine for 51 numbers from August 1965 to October 1983 1 His work to promote Scottish poets and artists included Hugh MacDiarmid and Ian Hamilton Finlay among others Some of his poetry was translated into Italian Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Bibliography 3 Reviews 4 ReferencesEarly life and career editGlen was born in Westburn Cambuslang South Lanarkshire Scotland the son of a white collar worker in The Steel Company of Scotland Hallside near Newton Station He was educated at West Coats Primary School in Cambuslang then at Rutherglen Academy but left at 15 to become an office boy and apprentice printer in Glasgow and Kirkcaldy before studying at Edinburgh College of Art After national service in the RAF as a photographic interpreter he became a typographic designer with the HMSO and did freelance typographic design for publishers in London Glen then moved into graphic design education first at Watford College of Technology After a brief spell as an editor in Glasgow with Robert Gibson amp Sons Ltd educational publishers at what was to become Preston Polytechnic he was appointed Professor of Visual Communication at what would be Nottingham Trent University Glen served on the Council of National Academic Awards Glen founded Akros Publications in 1965 to publish Scottish poetry and literary criticism from 1965 to 2006 over 250 works appeared under the Akros imprint They included poetry critical and historical studies Akros magazine 51 issues and Zed 2 0 19 numbers and fiction by Robert McLellan John Herdman and others His aim as editor of Akros magazine was to publish modern Scottish poetry in Scots and English cutting across the fighting cliques of the time 1 Alongside his own poetry he produced several studies of Scottish literature anthologies and a range of publications in other areas including a history of typography the definitive history of Cambuslang a place for which he retained a affection and an illustrated history of Kirkcaldy where he latterly lived Glen was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers in 1977 In 1974 and 1998 he received awards from the Scottish Arts Council for services to Scottish literature and in recognition of his many years as a publisher and editor and entrepreneurial activities for Scottish literature In 1991 he received the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award in recognition of long and devoted services to poetry In 2000 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters by Paisley University Bibliography editWorks and anthologies produced by Duncan Glen to be found in the National Library of Scotland and the British Library 21 poems after drawings etc by George Hollingworth et al 2000 Antigruppo Palermo gruppoanti 1974 Apprentice angel Hugh MacDiarmid 1963 Autobiography of a poet 1986 Bibliography of Scottish poets from Stevenson to 1974 compiled with an introduction by Duncan Glen with a preface by Hugh MacDiarmid 1974 Bonnie fechter sound recording Alexander Scott 1920 1989 1990 Bright they shine Cambuslang poetry by Patrick Hamilton et al with an introduction by Duncan Glen 2001 Buits and wellies or Sui generis a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with illustrations by George Hollingworth 1976 Christmas fable for Margaret Duncan Glen Cled score poems Duncan Glen 1974 Clydesdale a sequence o poems by Duncan Glen 1971 Clydeside kinsfolk the lives and times of a typically extended Lowland Scottish family 1694 to 1994 Cambuslang Rutherglen amp East Kilbride by Duncan Glen 1995 Collected poems 1965 2005 by Duncan Glen 2006 Echoes frae classical and Italian poetry by Duncan Glen 1992 Elegies a selection from 1966 2003 by Duncan Glen 2006 Essay in response to critical essays on contemporary Scottish poetry in Akros magazine George Bruce edited by Duncan Glen 2005 European poetry in Scotland an anthology of translations edited by Peter France amp Duncan Glen 1989 Evergreen song lyrics a selection from the poetry of the British Isles amp America chosen by Duncan Glen with commentaries 2000 Extended Glen family of Cambuslang Lanarkshire Scotland amp their descendants 1694 1998 by Duncan Glen 1998 Familiar epistles between William Hamilton of Gilbertfield in Cambuslang and Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh with an extract from William Hamilton of Gilbertfield s version of Blind Harry s Wallace edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen with prefaces by R K D Milne and Neil McCallum 2000 Feres poems by Duncan Glen 1971 Five literati an anon Scot lit anti lit pop symposium created by Duncan Glen 1976 Follow Follow Follow and other poems by Duncan Glen 1976 Forward from Hugh MacDiarmid or Mostly out of Scotland being fifteen years of Duncan Glen Akros Publications 1962 1977 by Duncan Glen with a check list of publications August 1962 August 1977 1977 Four Scottish poets of Cambuslang amp Dechmont Hill 1626 1990 Patrick Hamilton Minister at Cambuslang 1626 1645 Lieutenant William Hamilton of Gilbertfield Cambuslang c 1665 1751 John Struthers born at East Kilbride and poet of Dechmont 1776 1850 and Duncan Glen 1996 Friars of Berwick a narrative poem in Scots edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen 2002 Gaitherings poems in Scots by Duncan Glen 1977 Geeze a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen 1985 Graphic lines 1975 Historic Fife Murders at Falkland St Andrews amp Magus Muir journeys through Fife between Forth and Tay by Duncan Glen 2002 Hugh Glen and the Victoria Drinking Fountain Cambuslang a family memoir 2005 Hugh MacDiarmid amp Duncan Glen a prospect from Brownsbank poems biographical notes and a bibliography 1998 Hugh MacDiarmid a critical survey edited by Duncan Glen 1972 Hugh MacDiarmid an essay for 11 August 1977 Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance 1964 Hugh MacDiarmid or Out of Langholm and into the World Hugh MacDiarmid rebel poet and prophet A short note on the occasion of his seventieth birthday 1962 Illustrious Fife literary historical amp architectural pathways amp walks 1998 In appearances 1971 In place of wark or Man of art a sequence in thirty pairts 1977 In search of Serif Books the Stanley Press amp Joseph Mardel publisher of Maurice Lindsay s Hurlygush and Sydney Goodsir Smith s Under the Eildon tree amp taking serious note of William Maclellan amp Callum Macdonald with photographs and illustrations 2006 In the small hours or To be about to be a poem in thirty parts 1984 Individual and the twentieth century Scottish literary tradition 1971 Inextinguishable part 14 of realities poems 1977 Ither sangs 1978 John Atman and other poems with an introduction by Leonard Mason 2001 Journey into Scotland poems 1991 Journey past a sequence of poems 1971 Keepsake for New Year 2000 from Akros Publications poems 2000 Kirkcaldy a new illustrated history 2004 Kirkcaldy a photographic guide and introduction to the history of the town 2005 Lanark amp the Falls of Clyde Lanarkshire past and present a rediscovery amp anthology 2001 Literary masks of Hugh MacDiarmid Illustrated 1964 Long Calderwood old East Kilbride and its associations with John amp William Hunter and the poetry of Anne Hunter Joanna Baillie amp John Struthers with a selection of poems by Anne Hunter and Joanna Baillie 2005 Makars walk Walks in the old town of Edinburgh with an anthology of poetry selected and walked by Duncan Glen 1990 Morning taken with the sun an anthology of poems in short shining stanzas selection and design Duncan Glen 2001 Mr amp Mrs J L Stoddart at home a poem by Duncan Glen 1975 Nation in a parish a new historical prospect of Scotland from the parish of Cambuslang 1995 New history of Cambuslang 1998 Nottingham a poem 1984 Nuova poesia Scozzese edited by Duncan Glen translated by Nat Scammacca 1976 Nuova Scozia undici poesie di Duncan Glen scelte e tradotte dallo scozzese da Enzo Bonventre 1996 Of marks amp memories a gallimaufry of printers publishers and others marks devices emblems crests arms symbols or logos 2005 Of philosophers and tinks A sequence of poems 1977 On midsummer evenin merriest of nichts 1981 Orchardlands amp Avondale amp Bothwell Lanarkshire past and present a rediscovery amp anthology 2001 Out to the Calf of Man September 1989 a poem and etchings 1990 Photographic celebration at the ruins of Bighty Farm 2002 Poems in Scots Hugh MacDiarmid edited by Duncan Glen 1963 Poems on art works a selection by Duncan Glen 2003 Poetry of the Scots an introduction and bibliographical guide to poetry in Gaelic Scots Latin and English 1991 Poets amp paintings reinterpretations an essay 2003 Preston Polytechnic poets Duncan Glen Ian Harrow Philip Pacey Hugh Probyn edited by Duncan Glen with illustrations by John Hodkinson 1977 Preston s new buildings by John Brook and Duncan Glen with photographs by Myra Jones and John Brook 1975 Printing type designs a new history from Gutenberg to 2000 2001 Querencia saggio di traduzione poetica Enzo Bonventre 1994 Ravenscraig Castle with illustrations of Pathhead Sinclairtown amp Dysart 2001 Realities poems by Duncan Glen 1980 Robert Louis Stevenson and the Covenanters on the Bass Rock amp The tale of Tod Lapraik 2002 Ruined rural Fife churches photographed and introduced by Duncan Glen with a selection of photographs of other ruined buildings 2002 Ruins of Newark Castle St Monans autumn 2002 introduced and photographed by Duncan Glen 2003 Scottish literary periodicals three essays David Finkelstein Margery Palmer McCulloch Duncan Glen 1998 Scottish literature a new history from 1299 to 1999 1999 Scottish poetry now as seen from London by Simon Foster 1966 Seasons of delight an anthology of poems on gardens flowers greenwoods amp the sea compiled and edited by Duncan Glen amp Margaret Glen 1998 Selected elegies poems with photographs by Duncan Glen 2001 Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid edited with an introduction by Duncan Glen 1969 Selected new poems nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety six 1998 Selected poems 1965 1990 1991 Selected Scottish and other essays by Duncan Glen with an introduction by John Herdman 1999 Seventeen poems 1997 Situations a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with illustrations by Derek Carruthers 1984 Something of the night and of the sun selection and design Duncan Glen 2001 Splendid Lanarkshire past and present a rediscovery and anthology of prose amp verse written and compiled by Duncan Glen 1997 Spoiled for choice poems by Duncan Glen 1976 The State of Scotland a poem by Duncan Glen 1983 Stevenson s Scotland edited by Tom Hubbard amp Duncan Glen 2003 Stones of time A sequence of poems by Duncan Glen 1984 Sunny summer Sunday afternoon in the park 1969 Tales to be told poems by Duncan Glen 1987 Ten bird sangs by Duncan Glen 1978 Ten sangs by Duncan Glen 1978 Ten sangs of luve by Duncan Glen 1978 This is no can of beans a prospect from the window of a small press publisher by Duncan Glen 1999 Three trittico translators of poems by Duncan Glen Nat Scammacca Enzo Bonventre Marco Scalabrino Scots and English Italiano and Siciliano 2001 Traivellin man A sequence of poems by Duncan Glen with frontispiece by John Hodkinson 1977 Trittico scozzese Duncan Glen J K Annand Hugh MacDiarmid cura e traduzione dallo Scots di Enzo Bonventre traduzione in siciliano di Marco Scalabrino 2001 Turn of the earth a sequence of poems by Duncan Glen 1985 Twenty of the best and one more for good measure a Galliard anthology of contemporary Scottish poetry edited by Duncan Glen with drawings by Alfons Bytautas 1990 Unnerneath the bed a poem by Duncan Glen 1970 Upper Clydesdale Lanarkshire past and present a rediscovery amp anthology by Duncan Glen 2001 Weddercock or Tale of the ill taen caller at Easter Greenlees Ferm on 3 August 1910 a poem by Duncan Glen 1976 Whither Scotland a prejudiced look at the future of a nation Edited by Duncan Glen 1971 William Maclellan s Scottish journal images chosen and introduced by Duncan Glen 2004 William Williamson Kirkcaldy architect by Duncan Glen 2008 Winter a poem and other verses by James Thomson edited with an introductory essay by Duncan Glen 2002Reviews editN S Thompson 1980 review of Realities Poems Cencrastus No 4 Winter 1980 1881 p 40 ISSN 0264 0856 Cairns Craig 1984 Lourd on My Hert which includes a review of The State of Scotland A Poem Sheila G Hearn ed Cencrastus No 15 New Year 1984 pp 54 and 55 ISSN 0264 0856References edit a b Duncan Glen AKROS in Parker Geoff ed Cencrastus No 20 Spring 1985 pp 32 33 ISSN 0264 0856 Retrieved from https en 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