Frank Kuppner

Frank Kuppner (born 1951 Glasgow) is a Scottish poet.

Life

He has been Writer in Residence at various institutions, currently at University of Glasgow, and Strathclyde University.

Awards

• 2008 Creative Scotland Award
• 1995 McVitie’s Writer of the Year Award, for Something Very Like Murder
• 1984 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty
• 1972 AKROS Hugh Macdiarmid 80th Birthday Poetry Competition

Works

Poetry

• A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty. Carcanet. ISBN 9780856355141.
• The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women. Carcanet. 1987. ISBN 9780856355653.
• Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting!. Carcanet. 1989. ISBN 9780856357992.
• Everything is Strange. Carcanet. 1994. ISBN 9781857540710.
• Second Best Moments in Chinese History. Carcanet. 1997. ISBN 9781857543100.
• What? Again? Selected Poems. Carcanet. 2000. ISBN 9781857544992.
• A God's Breakfast. Carcanet. 2004. ISBN 9781857547443.
• Arioflotga. Carcanet Press Ltd. 2008. ISBN 9781857549331.

Non-Fiction

• A Concussed History of Scotland. Polygon. 1990. ISBN 9780748660599.

Fiction

• Life on a Dead Planet. Polygon. 1996. ISBN 9780748661510.
• Something Very Like Murder. Polygon. 1994. ISBN 9780748661817.
• In the Beginning There Was Physics. Polygon. 1999. ISBN 9780748662487.
• A very quiet street. Polygon. 1989. ISBN 9780748660049.

Reviews

A God's Breakfast is three books in one. The first and longest is "The Uninvited Guest", a sequence of hundreds of cod-classical epigrams and fragments; the third, "What Else is There?" a collection of 120 shorter poems. The rest of the volume is given up to "West Åland, or Five Tombeaux for Mr Testoil". At 48 pages, "West Åland" is about as long as The Waste Land and Four Quartets combined and is, I'd reckon, the most protracted dance ever made by one poet upon the grave of another.

External links

• "James Keery reviews The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry", Jacket 30

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