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George Ludgate Bruce[1] (10 March 1909 - 25 July 2002) was a Scottish poet.[2]

George Bruce (1909-2002). Courtesy Goodreads.

George Bruce (1909-2002). Courtesy Goodreads.

Life[]

Youth and education[]

Bruce was born in Fraserburgh, the eldest son of Henry George Bruce, who owned a firm of herring curers, and his wife Jeannie Roberta (Gray), daughter of a timber merchant.

He attended Fraserburgh Academy and then the University of Aberdeen, from which he graduated with 1st-class honors in English in 1932.[3]

Career[]

Bruce taught English and History at Dundee High School from 1935 to 1946. His first poetry collection, Sea Talk, was published in 1944. From 1946 to 1956 he was a producer of programmes for BBC Radio at Aberdeen. In 1956 he moved to Edinburgh, where he worked as a features producer for BBC television until his retirement in 1970.[3]

Bruce became the earliest creative writing fellow at Glasgow University 1971-1973.[2] He was theater and literary critic for the Sunday Times until 1976. He was also visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States. He wrote histories of the Saltire Society, the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Cockburn Society.[3]

Bruce and his wife, Elizabeth (who died in 1994), were married for 56 years. They had a son, David, and a daughter, Marjorie.[2]

Recognition[]

Bruce was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1984.[3]

He won the Saltire Society’s Scottish Book of the Year award for Pursuit in 1999, at the age of 90.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Sea Talk. Glasgow: W. Maclellan, 1944.
  • Selected Poems. Saltire Society / Oliver & Boyd, 1947.
  • Landscapes and Figures: A collection of poems. Preston, Lancashire, UK: Akros, 1967.
  • Collected Poems. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1970.
  • Perspectives: Poems, 1970-1986. Aberdeen, UK: Aberdeen University Press, 1987.
  • Pursuit: Poems, 1986-1998. Edinburgh: Scottish Cultural Press, 1999.
  • Today Tomorrow: Collected poems, 1933-2000 (with preface by Edwin Morgan). Edinburgh: Polygon, 2001.
  • Woman of the North Sea (illustrated by John Bellany). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printmakers, 2001.
  • The Crescent: Poems. Edinburgh: Warriston Crescent Residents Association, 2003.
  • Through the Letterbox: Haikus (edited by Lucina Prestige, illustrated by Elizabeth Blackadder). Edinburgh: Renaissance Press, 2003.
  • The Sacred Sea (edited by Lucina Prestige, illustrated by John Bellany). Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printmakers, 2007.
  • The Singing of the Foxes: Collected poems (edited by Lucina Prestige, illustrated by John Bellany). Edinburgh: Renaissance Press, 2007.

Non-fiction[]

  • Two Essays: Neil Miller Gunn (with Ian S. Munro). Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1971.
  • City of Edinburgh. London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1973.
  • Anne Redpath. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974.
  • Festival in the North: The story of the Edinburgh Festival. London: Robert Hale, 1975.
  • Some practical good: The Cockburn Association, 1875-1975: A hundred years' participation in planning in Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Cockburn Association, 1975.
  • William Soutar (1898-1943): The man and the poet: An essay. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1978.
  • "To Foster and Enrich": The first fifty years of the Saltire Society. Edinburgh: Saltire Society, 1986.
  • James Cumming: An appreciation (with Jack Firth). Edinburgh: Mercat Press / Scottish Gallery, 1995.

Edited[]

  • Maurice Lindsay, The Exiled Heart: Poems, 1914-1956. London: R. Hale, 1957.
  • Scottish Poetry(edited with Maurice Lindsay & Edwin Morgan). (9 volumes), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1966-1976.
  • The Scottish literary revival: an anthology of twentieth-century poetry. London: Collier-Macmillan / New York: Macmillan, 1968.
  • A Scottish postbag : eight centuries of Scottish letters (edited with Paul Scott). Edinburgh: Chambers, 1986.
  • The Land Out There: A Scottish land anthology (edited with Frank Rennie). Aberdeen, UK: Aberdeen University Press, 1991.
  • Enjoy Your life: Poems by children from East Lothian primary schools. Haddington, UK: Lamp of Lothian, 1993.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Bruce, George, VIAF, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 George Bruce (obituary), The Guardian, August 7, 2002. Web, May 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 George Bruce (1909-2002), Scottish Poetry Library. Web, May 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Search results = au:George Bruce, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 17, 2015.

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