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Douglas Dunn (b.1942)

Michael Snowden (b.1930)

Lochside Crescent, Edinburgh

Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
Douglas Dunn (b.1942)
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One of a series of 12 herm portrait busts of Scottish poets, sited along the pathway at regular intervals on both banks. Each plinth has two information boards attached, one a short biography of the poet and the second an example of their work. This project celebrates great poets and their poetry and provides a series of commissions for Scottish sculptors. The project added four herms per year over three years.
Title

Douglas Dunn (b.1942)

Date

2002–2003

Medium

bronze & concrete

Measurements

H 150 x W 30 x D 32 cm (E)

Accession number

EH12_GB_S011

Acquisition method

New Edinburgh Limited

Work type

Bust

Owner

Edinburgh Park

Custodian

Edinburgh Park

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

Douglas Dunn / born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, in 1942. / Dunn trained as a librarian and worked in / England and the USA. Since 1991 he has / been professor in the School of English at the University of St.Andrews. Also a short story writer and noted anthropologist, Dunn / has won many awards for his poetry. His/ twelve collections include St Kilda's Parliament (1981) Elegies (1985), and New Selected Poems (2003). The conversational / tone that characterises much of his work is / underpinned by great technical / accomplishment. Dunn is able to embed / individual stories within their larger / political and historical contexts, his strong / sense of social justice always apparent. / Honesty, fidelity to imaginative truth, and / an eye for the telling detail mark his poetry / as he meditates on Scottish and other / landscapes, on private and public histories. / Pricked by grief and memory, Dunn has / produced his generations most impressive / body of poetry. / Sculptor / Michael Snowdon RSA RGI

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Located at

Lochside Crescent, Edinburgh

EH12 9DH

In Edinburgh Park on the walkway at Lochside Crescent.

Artist or maker

Michael Snowden

b.1930

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