Elegies

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic best known for his collections evoking working-class life such as Terry Street (1969), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Love or Nothing (1974), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Elegies (1985), which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. A professor emeritus at the University of St Andrews, he has received numerous honors including the Cholmondeley Award, Hawthornden Prize, and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.