Douglas Reid Skinner

Douglas Reid Skinner was born in Upington in 1949, and went to school in Makhanda (Grahamstown), Kimberley and East London. For a living, he has worked variously as a driller and miner in the Northern Cape, a programmer and systems analyst in London and the USA, a publisher in Cape Town, a fine wine trader in England, and in house refurbishing and maintenance in Surrey, where he lives at present. He is the author of seven collections, including this title, and an edition of new and selected...See more

Douglas Reid Skinner was born in Upington in 1949, and went to school in Makhanda (Grahamstown), Kimberley and East London. For a living, he has worked variously as a driller and miner in the Northern Cape, a programmer and systems analyst in London and the USA, a publisher in Cape Town, a fine wine trader in England, and in house refurbishing and maintenance in Surrey, where he lives at present. He is the author of seven collections, including this title, and an edition of new and selected poems, as well as numerous translations. He is currently well known among South African poets as the editor of Stanzas magazine, and the English editor and translator for the avbob Poetry Project. See less