Douglas Livingstone

Douglas Livingstone (1932 - 1996) was a South African poet.

He was born in Kuala Lumpur, but his family moved to KwaZulu-Natal after his father was taken prisoner during the Japanese invasion of Malaysia. From 1964 he worked as a marine biologist in Durban. He gained two doctorates from the University of Natal; one for his scientific work and an honorary one for his poetry.

Table of contents

1 Poetry 2 Translations 3 Plays

Poetry

• The Skull in the Mud (1960)
• Sjambok abd Other Poems from Africa (1964)
• Poems (with Thomas Kinsella and Anne Sexton, 1968)
• Eyes Closed Against the Sun (1970)
• A Rosary of Bone (1975)
• The Anvil's Undertone (1978)
• Selected Poems (1984)
• A Littoral Zone (1991)

Translations

• Eight Shona Poems (with Phillipa Berlyn)
• Wilson Chivaura (with Phillipa Berlyn)

Plays

• The Sea My Winding Sheet (1964)
• A Rhino for the Boardroom (1974)
• The Semblance of the Real (1984)