Third Mandarin

Kuppner Frank

Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.

About the Author

Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951. He has been Writer in Residence at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Glasgow. In 1995 he won the McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year prize for for his book Something Very Like Murder. He received a Creative Scotland Award in 2003. Carcanet have published six books of his poetry: "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty" (Scottish Arts Council Book Award, 1984), "The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women" (1987), "Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting!" (1989), "Everything is Strange" (1994), "Second Best Moments in Chinese History" (1997) and "What? Again? Selected Poems" (2000).

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