Alan Bold
Alan Norman Bold (1943–1998) was a Scottish poet, biographer, journalist and saxophonist.[1] He was born in Edinburgh.[2]
He edited
Edinburgh University. His debut work, Society Inebrious, with a lengthy introduction by MacDiarmid, was published in 1965, during Bold's final university year. This early publication kick-started a prolific poetic career with Bold publishing another three books of verse before the end of the decade, including the ambitious book-length poem The State of the Nation. He also edited The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse (1970) and published a 1973 biography of Robert Burns
.
Alan Bold married an art teacher, Alice. Their daughter Valentina is a Robert Burns scholar like her father,[3] who teaches at the University of Glasgow.[4] A lifelong heavy drinker who dealt with the boozy life of the poet in such collections as A Pint of Bitter, Bold died after a short illness in a hospital in Kirkcaldy at the age of 54.
Publications
Poetry
- Penguin Modern Poets 15, 1969.
- Society Inebrious, Mowat Hamilton, Edinburgh 1965
- The Voyage, 1966
- To Find the New, Chatto and Windus, London, 1967
- A Perpetual Motion Machine, Chatto and Windus, London, 1969
- The State of the Nation, Chatto and Windus, London, 1969
- A Pint of Bitter, Chatto and Windus, 1971
- The Malfeasance, Alan Bold 1974
- This Fine Day, Borderline Press, 1979
Other
- The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse Penguin, 1970
- Biography of Robert Burns, Pitkin Pictorials Ltd, 1973
- Letters of Hugh MacDiarmid (edited), 1983
- East is West a novel, Keith Murray Publishing, 1991
- Making Love: The Picador Book of Erotic Verse, 1978
- The Bawdy Beautiful: The Sphere Book of Improper Verse, Editor, 1979
- Mounts of Venus: The Picador Book if Erotic Prose, 1980
- The Sensual Scot, Paul Harris Publishing, Editor, 1982
Reviews
- Murray, Glen (1980), review of This Fine Day, in ISSN 0264-0856
- Czerkawska, Catherine Lucy (1980), review of The Bawdy Beautiful: The Sphere Book of Improper Verse, Cencrastus No. 2, Spring 1980, p. 45
- Anderson, Carol (1983), The Bold Type, review of The Sensual Scot, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), Cencrastus No. 13, Summer 1983, p. 56
External links
- Alan Bold at The Scottish Poetry Library biography and appreciation by Richie McCaffery.
References
- ^ "co-leader and alto-saxophonist in a modern jazz group", Penguin Modern Poets 15, poet descriptions p. 1
- ^ Alan Bold, ed., The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse (Penguin Books, 1970), p. [1].
- ^ Shaw, Frank R. "Robert Burns Lives!: Merry Muses".
- ^ "Dr. Valentina Bold". School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015.
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