Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Douglas Eaglesham Dunn NPG x126404

© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Norman McBeath

Born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Dunn's first collection of poetry, Terry Street, was published in 1969, and was awarded both a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. His best known book Elegies, is a series of poems written in memory of his wife and for which he won the 1985 Whitbread Prize. Concerned with everyday, working-class life Dunn's poetry highlights the beauty in commonplace objects. He was awarded an OBE in 2003.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.