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Also known as Thomas Anthony Leonard, Thomas Leonard

Scottish poet (1944–2018)

Person · Open Library

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21

Top works

  • All Eyes on the Pond
  • Iwork Keynote for Busies
  • Letters Home
  • Tom Leonard in Conversation
  • Passing Through

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Person
Country
US
Active from
1918-08-25
Active to
1990-10-14

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Tom Leonard (born 1944 in Glasgow, Scotland) is best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect. Tom Leonard has been part of the Scottish literary renaissance for the past forty years. With Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, he has been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Published in 1976, his Glasgow Poems kick-started a literary counterculture. In 1984 he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Leonard">R

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date of birth
1944-00-00
date of death
2018-09-21
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