Join Peggy Hughes, Don Paterson, María Armental and Rachael Boast to celebrate the work of acclaimed Scottish poet, Douglas Dunn. One of Scottish poetry’s true greats, there are few poets whose work has grown and evolved along with so much of modern Scottish poetic history, from his multi-award-winning Terry Street in 1969, to 1985’s Elegies, The Year’s Afternoon at the turn of the century, and his late work The Noise of a Fly. Simply put, one cannot entirely know Scottish poetry without knowing Douglas Dunn, and our presenters are the perfect guides to this most enduring of oeuvres.

Peggy Hughes is Executive Director at National Centre for Writing, is on the board of publishers at 404ink and Open Book Reading, and is former Chair of Literature Alliance Scotland. Don Paterson is from Dundee, Scotland. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, and was the poetry editor at Picador MacMillan for over twenty-five years. María Armental is a poet and translator. She is the translator of Douglas Dunn’s poetic works into Galician. Rachael Boast is the author of four collections of poetry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Advisor to the Estate of W.S. Graham and a disability advocate.