Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (December 9, 1929 – February 9, 2009) was a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n poet, critic, playwright and English professor.

He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works.

Born on December 9, 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938. He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University.

Maclennan's academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...

. He taught in both South Africa and the United States. He began teaching at Rhodes University

Rhodes University

Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, established in 1904. It is the province’s oldest university, and is one of the four universities in the province...

 in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years, although he officially retired in 1994. In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade.

In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry. In his last decade, Maclennan had motor-neuron disease. He suffered a stroke in January 2009, although his mind was not affected by it. He died February 9, 2009, in Port Elizabeth.

Poetry

• 1971
  1971 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten...
  
  : In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim, A.A. Balkema, combining Maclennan's poetry and the music of Norbert Nowotny
• 1977
  1977 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January – James Dickey, composed a poem he read at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala although not at the inauguration itself.* British publication Gay News successfully...
  
  : Life Songs, Bateleur Press
• 1983
  1983 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Frogmore Press founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone...
  
  : Reckonings, New Africa Books, ISBN 9780908396955
• 1988
  1988 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year....
  
  : Collecting Darkness, Justified Press
• 1992
  1992 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:The Forward Book of Poetry, an annual anthology of best British poems, is published for the first time by the Forward Poetry Trust. By 2003, the publication was selling 5,000 to 7,000 copies a year...
  
  : Letters: New Poems, Carrefour Press, ISBN 9780958317870
• 1995
  1995 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 16 — Announcement that 300 poems by S.T...
  
  : The Poetry Lesson: New Poems Snailpress, ISBN 9781874923251
• 1997
  1997 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inauguration....
  
  : Solstice: Poems, ISBN 9781874923404, winner of South Africa's Sanlam Literary Award for 1997
• 1998
  1998 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago .* Skanky Possum poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas....
  
  : Of Women and Some Men with George Coutouvidis, Firfield Poetry Press, ISBN 9781875058167
• 2001
  2001 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Immediately after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, W. H...
  
  :
  • Notes from a Rhenish Mission, Firfield Press, ISBN 9781875058174
  • A Brief History of Madness in the Eastern Cape, with drawings by Siddis Firfield Firfield Press, ISBN 9781875058174
• Bateleur Poets, ISBN 9780620022811
• 2002
  2002 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket; the...
  
  : Rock paintings at Salem, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2002
  2002 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Britain, publishes a poem praising a suicide bomber who had killed himself and two Israelis after blowing himself up in a supermarket; the...
  
  : The Road to Kromdraai, Publisher Snailpress, ISBN 9781874923633
• 2003
  2003 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was opened at Queens University, Belfast, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, as well as a full catalogue of...
  
  : The Dinner Party, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2003
  2003 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was opened at Queens University, Belfast, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, as well as a full catalogue of...
  
  : A Letter to William Blake, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2003
  2003 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was opened at Queens University, Belfast, this year. It houses the Heaney Media Archive, a unique record of Heaney's entire oeuvre, as well as a full catalogue of...
  
  : Under Compassberg, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2004
  2004 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...
  
  : Excavations, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2005
  2005 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl were staged in San Francisco, New York City, and in Leeds in the UK...
  
  : Reading the Signs, Carapace
• 2006
  2006 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon...
  
  : The necessary salt, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2006
  2006 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon...
  
  : Selected Poems, Quartz Press
• 2007
  2007 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. This locale is the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, a winding...
  
  : The owl of Minerva, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• Through a Glass Darkly, self-published, Rhodes University GSU
• 2010
  2010 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 19 - For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, early...
  
  : Dress Rehearsal, self-published, Rhodes University GSU

Other works

• An Enquiry into the Voyage of the Santiago, a play
• 2004
  2004 in poetry
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants...
  
  : Editor, with Malcolm Hacksley, A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone, publisher: Ad Donker, ISBN 9780868522326
• Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler Publisher: D. Philip, ISBN 9780908396924
• Sarah Christie, Don Maclennan, Geoffrey Hutchings, Perspectives on South African Fiction, Publisher Ad. Donker, ISBN 9780949937742