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Frank Kuppner

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Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951. He has written eleven Carcanet collections. The first, A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty, was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book award in 1984. Second Best Moments in Chinese History received the same award in 1997. A novelist as well as a poet, he received the McVitie’s Prize for his fiction in 1995. He has been Writer in Residence at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Glasgow.

Praise for Frank Kuppner 'He writes with the bemused urgency of someone who has only just noticed that nothing whatsoever makes any sense... Kuppner risks playing with bathos and sarcasm, outright silliness and sheer smut...'
Sunday Herald 'Kuppner is a first-class parodist... a poet of immense intellectual and comic power, without whose cosmic interrogations the universe would be poorer.'
Poetry Review 'Life is, of course, a substitute for dreams,' Kuppner writes. And reading him is like being in a dream. The outcome is a tour de force of unsense, not nonsense.'
Peter Porter, the Observer 'Kuppner has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British poetry.'
London Review of Books 'Frank Kuppner is a poet of immense intellectual and comic power, without whose cosmic interrogations the universe would be poorer.' Aingeal Clare, Poetry Review 'Kuppner has been one of the most interesting Scottish writers of the past 20 years.'
William Wooten, the Guardian

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Frank Kuppner Books by this author: Not a Moment Too Soon The Third Mandarin The Same Life Twice Arioflotga A God's Breakfast What? Again? Second Best Moments In Chinese History Everything Is Strange Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! A Bad Day For Sung Dynasty The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women About Reviews Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951. He has written eleven Carcanet collections. The first, A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty, was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book award in 1984. Second Best Moments in Chinese History received the same award in 1997. A novelist as well as a poet, he received the McVitie’s Prize for his fiction in 1995. He has been Writer in Residence at the universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Glasgow. Praise for Frank Kuppner 'He writes with the bemused urgency of someone who has only just noticed that nothing whatsoever makes any sense... Kuppner risks playing with bathos and sarcasm, outright silliness and sheer smut...' Sunday Herald 'Kuppner is a first-class parodist... a poet of immense intellectual and comic power, without whose cosmic interrogations the universe would be poorer.' Poetry Review 'Life is, of course, a substitute for dreams,' Kuppner writes. And reading him is like being in a dream. The outcome is a tour de force of unsense, not nonsense.' Peter Porter, the Observer 'Kuppner has one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British poetry.' London Review of Books 'Frank Kuppner is a poet of immense intellectual and comic power, without whose cosmic interrogations the universe would be poorer.' Aingeal Clare, Poetry Review 'Kuppner has been one of the most interesting Scottish writers of the past 20 years.' William Wooten, the Guardian	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog Sea-Fever: John Masefield read more Poems, Stories and Writings: Margaret Tait read more Selected and New Poems: John F. Deane read more Child Ballad: David Wheatley read more Hell, I Love Everybody: James Tate read more PN Review 273: Editorial read more
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