D. M. Black

D. M. Black is a Scottish poet, born in South Africa in 1941, brought up in Scotland from 1950. He now lives in London and Wiltshire. In 1991 he produced a 'Collected Poems' (Polygon), having previously published four collections of poems and a number of pamphlets. He was included in the first series of Penguin Modern Poets (no. 11, 1968) and his poems have appeared in many anthologies including: 'British Poetry since 1945' (Penguin, 1970), edited by Edward Lucie-Smith; 'The Faber Book of...See more

D. M. Black is a Scottish poet, born in South Africa in 1941, brought up in Scotland from 1950. He now lives in London and Wiltshire. In 1991 he produced a 'Collected Poems' (Polygon), having previously published four collections of poems and a number of pamphlets. He was included in the first series of Penguin Modern Poets (no. 11, 1968) and his poems have appeared in many anthologies including: 'British Poetry since 1945' (Penguin, 1970), edited by Edward Lucie-Smith; 'The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry' (Faber, 1992), edited by Douglas Dunn; 'Emergency Kit' (Faber, 1996), edited by Jo Shapcott and Matthew Sweeney; 'Generations' (Penguin, 1998), edited by Melanie Hart and James Loader; 'A Quark for Mr. Mark: 101 Poems about Science' (Faber, 2000), edited by Maruice Riordan and Jon Turney; 'Apollinaire' (Everyman, 2000), edited by Robert Chandler; and 'ild Reckoning' (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2004), edited by Maurice Riordan and John Burnside. Since 1991 he has published a collection of translations of Goethe, 'Love as Landscape Painter', and individual poems in a variety of journals including Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry London, Stand, Thumbscrew and the TLS. See less