Poet and cultural worker Duncan Glen has died at the age of 75.
Duncan Glen was born in 1933 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, the son of a manager at the local steelworks.
He married Margaret Eadie, daughter of the stationmaster at Markinch when he moved to Fife in the 1950s.
He worked for the Kirkcaldy printing
firm Allen Litho and attended day release classes at Edinburgh College of Art.
He then spent a number of years living south of the border, in London, Preston and Radcliffe-on-Trent and worked as a professor of visual communications at what is now Nottingham Trent University.
He moved to Edinburgh in March 1987 to take over the design and editorship of the newsletter of the new Scottish Poetry Library, his haunt while living in the Capital until 1996.
Along with Peter France, he co-edited the pioneering anthology of translations by Scottish poets, European Poetry in Scotland.
He designed and edited the Scottish Poetry Library's newsletter until 2007.
Robyn Marsack, director of the library, said: "He was a fantastic friend of the Poetry Library. He found it quite difficult to come back to Scotland, but he found the library a hospitable place on his return from exile.
"He was not only a poet, he was a typographer and designer.
"He took over designing our newsletter, which is our principle way of communicating with members.
"He was also very active in running the annual fair, By Leaves We Live, which will take place on Saturday September 27 this year.
"Duncan was wonderfully generous with his time and ideas."
She said many of his poems were inspired by the city, including Edinburgh Autumn.
Mr Glen, who wrote Edinburgh Autumn on his return to the Capital in 1987, once said: "The city glowed for me with not only history but blue skies under a clear northern light and, living in Marchmont in a flat that overlooked Bruntsfield Links and the Meadows, I had a clear view of the Castle, it was also a city of many greens."
Mr Glen also designed a book, Variations on a New Song, which was published in 2000 to celebrate the first anniversary of the new Scottish Parliament. This included work by 21 poets, commissioned by MSPs.
After leaving Edinburgh, he moved to Kirkcaldy and discovered a new career as a local historian, which led to him publishing the Fife anthology Fringe of Gold earlier this year.
In June he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, and he suffered a stroke last Friday and died in the early hours of Saturday.
He leaves behind his wife Margaret, their son Ian and daughter Alison, as well as two grandchildren.
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