Douglas Livingstone (5 January 1932 – 19 February 1996) was a South African poet.
He was born in
Kuala Lumpur, but his family moved to
Natal after his father was taken prisoner during the
Japanese invasion of
Malaya. He attended
Kearsney College and in 1964, he started work as a marine biologist in
Durban. He gained two doctorates from the
University of Natal; one for his scientific work and an honorary one for his poetry.[1][2]
Poetry
The Skull in the Mud (1960)
Sjambok and Other Poems from Africa (1964)
Poems (with Thomas Kinsella and Anne Sexton, 1968)
Eyes Closed Against the Sun (1970)
A Rosary of Bone (1975)
The Anvil's Undertone (1978)
Selected Poems (1984)
A Littoral Zone (1991)
Giovanni Jacopo Meditates on the High-IQ Haiku (1995)
A Ruthless Fidelity—Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone (2004)