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Alfred David BURNETT Biography,Bibliography,Books Review,Publications,Career,Email Address
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. British/Scottish born Scotland, b. 1937.

Genres: Poetry, Intellectual history, Librarianship, Literary criticism and history, Translations.

Career: Glasgow University Library, library assistant, 1959-64; Durham University Library, assistant librarian, 1964-90. Writer.

Publications: POETRY: Mandala, 1967; Diversities, 1968; A Ballad upon a Wedding, 1969; Columbaria, 1971; Shimabara, 1972; Thirty Snow Poems, 1973; Fescennines, 1973; The True Vine, 1974; Hero and Leander: A Poem, 1975; He and She, 1976; The Heart’s Undesign, 1977; Figures and Spaces, 1978; Jackdaw, 1980; Thais, 1981; Romans, 1983; Vines: Poems, 1984; Kantharos, 1989; Lesbos, 1990; Root and Flower, 1990; 9 Poets, 1993; 12 Poems, 1994; The Island: A Poem, 1994, 2nd. ed., 1996; 6 Poems, 1995; Transfusions: Poems from the French, 1995; Chesil Beach: A Poem, 1997. NONFICTION: Cataloguing Policy Objectives and the Computer, 1966; Report of the North-East Libraries and Computers Group Working Party on the Operational Data Requirements of Different Kinds of Library, 1968; with S. Simsova and R.K. Gupta Studies in Comparative Librarianship: Three Essays Presented for the Sevensma Prize 1971, 1973; Wood and Type: An Exhibition of Books, 1977; Five Hundred Years of Science: Descriptive Catalogue of an Exhibition in the University Library, Palace Green, Durham, 1978; ed. with E.E. Cumming International Library and Information Programmes: Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the International and Comparative Li-brarianship Group of the Library Association, 1979; ed. and intro. with D.F.C. Surman Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Ezra Pound: A Display of Printed Material and Related Items Arranged to Accompany the Fourth International Ezra Pound Conference, 1979; ed. with S.P. Green The British Commitment Overseas: A Transcript of Seminar Discussions Held at the Library Association Study School and National Conference, 1979; ed. with H.A. Whatley Language and Literacy: The Public Library Role: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the International and Comparative Librarianship, 1981; Arabic Resources: Acquisition and Management in British Libraries, 1986; ed. Technology for Information in Development: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International and Comparative Librarianship Group of the Library Association, 1988; Pharos: Two Essays upon Thais, 1989; The Presence of Japan: Lafcadio Hearn, 1890-1990, 1991. OTHER: The Abbott Collection of Literary Manuscripts: An Introduction with the Catalogue of an Exhibition, 1975; Autolycus, 1987; Crystal and Flint, 1991; trans. with J. Cayley Mirror and Pool: Translations from the Chinese, 1992; Temenos, 1993; The Olive of Odysseus, 1993; Something of Myself, 1994; Transfusions: An Introduction, 1995; Hokusai, 1996; Marina Tsvetaeva, 1996; Moschatel and Morning Star, 1997; Akhmatova, 1998; The Engraved Title-Page of Bacon’s Instauratio Magna, 1998; A Thinker for All Seasons, 2000; Butterflies, 2000; Cinara, 2001; Evergreens, 2002; Sister Margaret Tournour, 2003; Quoins for the Chase, 2003. Contributor to magazines and journals.

Address: 33 Hastings Ave., Merry Oaks, Durham DH1 3QG, England.

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