Frank Kuppner

(born 1951 - ) - Glasgow

Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951 and has lived there ever since. He has been Writer in Residence at various institutions, most recently, Strathclyde University in Glasgow.

His writings, both prose and poetry, have attracted some critical acclaim and his distinctive voice marks him out as a truly original voice. His work has not yet brought him commercial success, however, despite winning national awards, and he remains a vastly underrated writer.

In 1994 he wrote A Very Quiet Street, part-meditation and part-investigation of the Oscar Slater case, a Glasgow murder case from the 1920s. In 1995 he won the McVitie’s Writer of the Year Award with Something Very Like Murder. This was followed by Life on a Dead Planet. His latest collection is The Same Life Twice.

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Arioflotga
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
An index of the first lines of a vast, lost poetical anthology. The poetry world was in despair when the 'Great Poetic Anthology' was lost during its preparation. Frank Kuppner gives us consolation with these recovered versions of the opening lines.
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Everything Is Strange
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
A volume consisting of two long works: the title poem and 'In a Persian Garden'.
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A God's Breakfast
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
A major new compendium of poems including: 'The Uninvited Guest' where a new world emerges in a strangely edited riot of epigrams and annotations and 'West Åland' in which a massively important writer and thinker is put firmly in his place. The compendium also includes a collection of individual new poems.
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The Same Life Twice
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
John Ashberry wrote a parallel column poem in which both columns are to be read at the same time. Kuppner goes beyond poetry to life itself, or lives itself.
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Second Best Moments In Chinese History
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
These 501 quatrains, while formally identical to his first work, have a different tone which make the laughter and the heartbreak more intense and more political.
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What? Again?: Selected Poems
Frank Kuppner - Paperback - Carcanet
This compilation of poems by the Scottish writer Frank Kuppner, is taken from his five books of poetry. The poems address love, China, wisdom, humour, taste, both visible and variable, and a strange reticence towards botany.