Alastair Macdonald

Alastair Macdonald was born and received his early education in Scotland. He has an M.A. from Aberdeen University, a B.Litt. from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from the Victoria University of Manchester. From 1955 until his retirement in 1987 he taught in the English department of Memorial University where he is now a Professor Emeritus. In 1988 he was honoured by Newfoundland Quarterly by a collection of new poems in a Special Poetry Section, celebrating his contribution to it during the previous twenty years. He has given many live and broadcast readings of his poetry to general audiences and to students of poetry and speech, in St.John's, Corner Brook, Halifax, Toronto, and Montreal. In 1992 he read a programme of his poetry for the Harbourfront reading series.

Awards
Festival Open Poetry Competition, Stroud, England, Honourable Mention, 1967.
Canadian Author and Bookman, first prize, 1972.
New Voices in American Poetry, Vantage Press, best poem, 1973.
Newfoundland and Labrador Government Arts and Letters Competitions, first prize, 1976; honourable mention, 1978; second prize, 1982.

Selected Publications
Between Something and Something. (Outposts Publications, England, 1970).
Shape Enduring Mind. (Vantage Press, New York, 1974).
A Different Lens. (H. Cuff Publications, 1981).
Towards the Mystery. (H. Cuff Publications, 1985).
Flavian's Fortune (novel). (H.Cuff Publications, 1985).
A Figure on the Move. (Breakwater Books, 1991).
Landscapes of Time: New, Uncollected and Selected Poems. (Breakwater Books, 1994).
A futher poetry collection in progress.

Selected Anthologies
Festival Poems. (Stroud, England, 1967).
Live Poetry. (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1971).
Easterly: Sixty Atlantic Writers. (Academic Press, 1983).
No Other Place: An Anthology of Poetry from Aberdeen University Review 1913-1995 (issued as part of the 500th anniversary celebrations for the University's foundation). (Tuckwell Press, Scotland, 1995).

Books in Print
Macdonald, Alastair
A Different Lens. H Cuff Publications, 1981.
A Figure on the Move. Breakwater Books, 1991. $24.95 ISBN: 1-55081-010-3.
 Flavian's Fortune. H. Cuff Publications, 1985.
Landscapes of Time. Breakwater Books, 1994.
Thomas Gray, an Elegy... The Eton Manuscript and First Edition, 1751. Scholar Press, London, 1976.
Towards the Mystery. H. Cuff Publications, 1985.