Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: When I left Dundee in 1975,

I carried with me a manuscript of 31 Poems by G.F. Dutton, which I published under the Old Fire Station Poets imprint. Geoffrey followed this up with his first collection, Camp One, published in 1978. In 1983, he retired from university research--a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, with three honorary degrees.

Three volumes of poetry appeared subsequently from Bloodaxe Books: Squaring the Waves in 1986, The Concrete Garden in 1991, and, in 2002, The Bare Abundance, Selected Poems 1975--2001. A testament to his garden, Harvesting the Edge, was published in 1994, followed by Some Branch Against the Sky, a guide to marginal horticulture, in 1997.

from The Guardian: Geoffrey Dutton obituary

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