Douglas Houston Notebooks,

Notebooks and other papers of Dr Douglas Houston, including drafts of poems, notes, diary entries, correspondence and drafts of articles.

Douglas Houston, writer, poet, and academic, was born in Cardiff in 1947. He grew up in Scotland, and later moved to Hull, Yorkshire. He returned to Wales, to the Aberystwyth area, in 1981. His poetry has been published in the collections With the Offal Eaters, 1986, The Hunters in the Snow, 1994, and The Welsh Book of the Dead, 2001. His doctoral thesis 'Myths of Place: the importance of Landscapes in the Poetries of W. H. Auden and Seamus Heaney', was completed in 1986.

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Purchased from Dr Houston, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, 1996 and December 2012.

Douglas Houston, writer, poet, and academic, was born in Cardiff in 1947. He grew up in Scotland, and later moved to Hull, Yorkshire. He returned to Wales, to the Aberystwyth area, in 1981. His poetry has been published in the collections With the Offal Eaters, 1986, The Hunters in the Snow, 1994, and The Welsh Book of the Dead, 2001. His doctoral thesis 'Myths of Place: the importance of Landscapes in the Poetries of W. H. Auden and Seamus Heaney', was completed in 1986.

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A hard copy of the catalogue of the 1996 Purchase is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1997, p. 42, at the National Library of Wales.

May 2003 and January 2015.

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project, with additions by David Moore. The following sources were consulted in the compilation of this description: National Library of Wales, Minor Lists and Summaries 1997; Houston, Douglas, The Hunters in the Snow (Newcastle Upon Tyne 1994); papers within the archive.

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