Don Maclennan

Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (9 December 1929 – 9 February 2009) was a South African poet, critic, playwright and English professor.

He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works.

Born on 9 December 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938. He was educated at

• 1971: In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim, A.A. Balkema, combining Maclennan's poetry and the music of Norbert Nowotny^[1]
• 1977: Life Songs, Bateleur Press^[1]
• Bateleur Poets,
  ISBN 978-0-620-02281-1^[5]
• ISBN 978-0-908396-95-5^[6]
• ISBN 978-0-9474510-3-5^[1]
• ISBN 978-0-9583178-7-0^[7]
• ISBN 978-1-874923-25-1^[8]
• ISBN 978-1-874923-40-4,^[9] winner of South Africa's Sanlam Literary Award for 1997^[1]
• ISBN 978-1-875058-16-7^[10]
• 2001:
  • Notes from a Rhenish Mission,
    ISBN 978-1-875058-17-4^[11]
  • A Brief History of Madness in the Eastern Cape, with drawings by
    ISBN 978-1-875058-17-4^[1]
• 2002: Rock paintings at Salem, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• ISBN 978-1-874923-63-3^[12]
• 2003: The Dinner Party, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2003: A Letter to William Blake, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2003: Under Compassberg, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2004: Excavations,^[1] self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2005: Reading the Signs, Carapace
• 2006: The necessary salt, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2006: Selected Poems, Quartz Press
• 2007: The owl of Minerva, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2008: Through a Glass Darkly, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2010: Dress Rehearsal, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2012: Collected Poems, Print Matters Heritage Press (ed. Dan Wylie) ISBN 978-0-987009562

Other works

• An Enquiry into the Voyage of the Santiago, a play^[4]
• Job Mava, a play, written and performed in 1972/3 by The Ikhwezi Players, published 1981/2^[4]
• My Childhood, adaptation of Maxim Gorky's play, performed in 1975 by The Ikhwezi Players^[4]
• ISBN 978-0-86852-232-6^[13]
• Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler
  ISBN 978-0-908396-92-4^[14]
• Sarah Christie, Don Maclennan, Geoffrey Hutchings, Perspectives on South African Fiction, Publisher Ad. Donker,
  ISBN 978-0-949937-74-2^[15]