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Author Description Alan Norman Bold was a Scottish poet, biographer, and journalist. He was educated at Broughton High School and the University of Edinburgh.<br /><br />He edited <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/289438.Hugh_MacDiarmid" title="Hugh MacDiarmid" rel="nofollow noopener">Hugh MacDiarmid</a>'s Letters and wrote the influential biography <i>MacDiarmid</i>. Bold had acquainted himself with MacDiarmid in 1963 while still an English Literature student at Edinburgh University. His debut work, <i>Society Inebrious</i>, with a lengthy introduction by MacDiarmid, was published in 1965, during Bold's final university year. This early publication kick-started a prolific poetic career with Bold publishing another three books of verse before the end of the decade, including the ambitious book-length poem <i>The State of the Nation</i>. He also edited <i>The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse</i> (1970) and published a 1973 biography of Robert Burns.<br /><br />A lifelong heavy drinker who dealt with the boozy life of the poet in such collections as <i>A Pint of Bitter</i>, Bold suffered a heart attack in early 1998 and died in a hospital in Kirkcaldy at the age of 54.

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