Composers and their stage works 



Stewart Conn

Scottish poet and playwright. Born in Glasgow November 5,. 1936 and raised in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire he has lived in Edinburgh since 1977, and was the city's first poet laureate, under the title the Edinburgh Makar. He worked for several years as a producer for the BBC.

Plays:

  1. Break-Down (produced 1961).
  2. Birds in a Wilderness (produced 1964).
  3. I Didn't Always Live Here (produced 1967).
  4. The King (produced 1967).
  5. Broche (produced 1968).
  6. Fancy Seeing You, Then (produced 1974).
  7. In Transit, published 1972;
  8. The Man in the Green Muffler, 1976.
  9. The Burning (produced 1971). 1973.
  10. A Slight Touch of the Sun (produced 1972).
  11. The Aquarium (produced 1973).
  12. Thistlewood (produced 1975). 1979.
  13. Count Your Blessings (produced 1975).
  14. Play Donkey (produced 1977). 1980.
  15. Billy Budd, with Stephen Macdonald, adaptation of the novel by Melville (produced 1978).
  16. Hecuba (produced 1979; revised version produced 1989).
  17. Herman (produced 1981).
  18. Hugh Miller (produced 1988).
  19. By the Pool (produced 1988).
  20. The Dominion of Fancy (produced 1992).

Radio Plays:

  1. Any Following Spring, 1962;
  2. Cadenza for Real, 1963;
  3. Song of the Clyde, 1964;
  4. The Canary Cage, 1967;
  5. Too Late the Phalarope, from the novel by Alan Paton, 1984.

Television Plays:

  1. Wally Dugs Go in Pairs, 1973;
  2. The Kite, 1979;
  3. Blood Hunt, 1986.

Verse:

  1. Thunder in the Air. 1967.
  2. The Chinese Tower. 1967.
  3. Stoats in the Sunlight. 1968;
  4. An Ear to the Ground. 1972.
  5. Under the Ice. 1978.
  6. The Luncheon of the Boating Party. 1992.

Other:

  • The Living Poet (radio broadcast). 1989.
  • Editor, New Poems 1973-74. 1974.

Manuscript Collection:

  • Scottish National Library, Edinburgh.

Critical Study:

  • Towards the Human by Iain Crichton Smith, 1987.