South African poet and academic (1929–2009)
Don Maclennan in 1984 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 atWitwatersrand University andEdinburgh University .[ 1]
Maclennan's academic career included lecturing atWits University and theUniversity of Cape Town .[ 2] He taught in both South Africa and the United States.[ 3] He began teaching atRhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years,[ 2] although he officially retired in 1994. In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade.[ 4]
In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry.[ 4] In his last decade, Maclennan had motor-neuron disease. He suffered a stroke in January 2009, although his mind was not affected by it. He died on 9 February 2009, inPort Elizabeth .[ 2]
Years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" article for poetry; for literature, to corresponding "[year] in literature" article:
1971 :In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim , A.A. Balkema, combining Maclennan's poetry and the music ofNorbert Nowotny [ 1] 1977 :Life Songs , Bateleur Press[ 1] Bateleur Poets ,ISBN 978-0-620-02281-1 [ 5] 1983 :Reckonings ,[ 1] New Africa Books,ISBN 978-0-908396-95-5 [ 6] 1988 :Collecting Darkness , Justified Press,ISBN 978-0-9474510-3-5 [ 1] 1992 :Letters: New Poems , Carrefour Press,ISBN 978-0-9583178-7-0 [ 7] 1995 :The Poetry Lesson: New Poems [ 1] Snailpress,ISBN 978-1-874923-25-1 [ 8] 1997 :Solstice: Poems ,ISBN 978-1-874923-40-4 ,[ 9] winner of South Africa's Sanlam Literary Award for 1997[ 1] 1998 :Of Women and Some Men [ 1] with George Coutouvidis, Firfield Poetry Press,ISBN 978-1-875058-16-7 [ 10] 2001 :2002 :Rock paintings at Salem , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2002 :The Road to Kromdraai ,[ 1] Publisher Snailpress,ISBN 978-1-874923-63-3 [ 12] 2003 :The Dinner Party , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2003 :A Letter to William Blake , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2003 :Under Compassberg , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2004 :Excavations ,[ 1] self-published, Rhodes University GSU2005 :Reading the Signs , Carapace2006 :The necessary salt , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2006 :Selected Poems , Quartz Press2007 :The owl of Minerva , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2008 :Through a Glass Darkly , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2010 :Dress Rehearsal , self-published, Rhodes University GSU2012 :Collected Poems , Print Matters Heritage Press (ed. Dan Wylie)ISBN 978-0-987009562 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] 2004 : Editor, with Malcolm Hacksley,A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone ,[ 1] publisher: Ad Donker,ISBN 978-0-86852-232-6 [ 13] Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler [ 1] Publisher: D. Philip,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] ^a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Maclennan, Donald (Alasdair Calum)" article,Student Encyclopedia of African Literature , by Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007ISBN 978-0-313-33580-8 , retrieved via Google Books on 13 February 2009^a b c Loewe, Mike,"Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79" , article, 12 February 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article "was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009", according to the Web page, retrieved 13 February 2009 ^ "Prof Don A C MacLennan" [permanent dead link ] at Rhodes University website, retrieved 13 February 2009^a b c d e "RIP Don Maclennan: 1929 – 2009. February 10th, 2009 by Ben – Editor", article at Book SA News website, retrieved 13 February 2009 Archived 13 February 2009 at theWayback Machine ^ "Bateleur Poets" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Reckonings" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Letters: New Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "The Poetry Lesson: New Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Solstice: Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Of Women and Some Men" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Notes from a Rhenish Mission" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "The Road to Kromdraai" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ "Perspectives on South African Fiction" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009
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