Frank Kuppner Explained

Frank Kuppner
Occupation:	Poet Novelist
Nationality:	Scottish
Alma Mater:	University of Glasgow Strathclyde University
Genre:	Poetry Fiction Non-fiction

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

Life

He has edited the Edinburgh Review and been Writer in Residence at various institutions, currently at University of Glasgow, and Strathclyde University.^{[1] [2] [3]}

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

• Book: A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty . 1984 . Carcanet . 978-0-85635-514-1 . registration .
• Book: The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women . Carcanet. 1987. 978-0-85635-565-3 .
• Book: Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! . Carcanet. 1989. 978-0-85635-799-2 .
• Book: Everything is Strange . Carcanet. 1994. 978-1-85754-071-0 .
• Book: Second Best Moments in Chinese History . Carcanet. 1997. 978-1-85754-310-0 .
• Book: What? Again? Selected Poems . Carcanet. 2000. 978-1-85754-499-2 .
• Book: A God's Breakfast. Carcanet. 2004. 978-1-85754-744-3 .
• Book: Arioflotga . Carcanet Press Ltd.. 2008. 978-1-85754-933-1 .
• Book: The Same Life Twice . Carcanet Press Ltd.. 2012. 978-1847771452 .

Non-Fiction

• Book: A Concussed History of Scotland . Polygon. 1990. 978-0-7486-6059-9 .

Fiction

• Book: Life on a Dead Planet . Polygon. 1996. 978-0-7486-6151-0 .
• Book: Something Very Like Murder . Polygon . 1994 . 978-0-7486-6181-7 .
• Book: In the Beginning There Was Physics. Polygon. 1999. 978-0-7486-6248-7 .
• Book: A very quiet street. Polygon. 1989. 978-0-7486-6004-9 .

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.^[4]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Carcanet Press - Frank Kuppner. 2021-08-03. www.carcanet.co.uk.
2. Web site: Creative Scotland Awards - Artist Details . 2009-08-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071012154320/http://www.creativescotland.org.uk/ArtistDetails.aspx?ProjectId=38 . 2007-10-12 . dead .
3. Web site: The Scottish Poetry Library . 2009-08-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100727010444/http://www.spl.org.uk/poets_a-z/kuppner.htm . 2010-07-27 . dead .
4. News: Fame and fleabites. William Wootten . The Guardian. 26 February 2005 .