David R. Morrison (author)
David Ralston Morrison (4 August 1941 – 1 September 2012) was a Scottish author, editor and painter.
Born in Glasgow, he was educated at Glasgow High School and Hamilton Academy, then studied at Glasgow College of Commerce and the University of Strathclyde, qualifying as a librarian. He worked in libraries across Scotland, rising to County Librarian in 1972. After local authority regionalization in 1975, he became Divisional Librarian for Caithness and Sutherland, then Area Librarian for Caithness and Sutherland under Highland Council.
Morrison founded the Wick Festival of Poetry, Folk and Jazz and wrote or edited many works, including pieces on Neil M Gunn and Fionn MacColla. In 1970 he started Scotia Review, a radical literary magazine which he edited for 34 years, until 2004. The National Library of Scotland held a Scotia Review exhibition in 1984 and preserves copies and Morrison’s manuscripts.
A collection of his poems, The Cutting Edge: Collected Poems 1966-2003, was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2006.
David Morrison died on 1 September 2012, at the age of 71.
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