The happier life / Douglas Dunn

London : Faber and Faber, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 72 pages : 20 cm. Contents; The garden -- The river through the city -- The friendship of young poets -- Nights of Sirius -- At a Yorkshire bus-stop -- The musical orchard -- Backwaters -- Leisure no end -- This year and next -- Morning bedroom -- Supreme death -- Celtica -- The boon companions -- Night -- Syndrome -- Billie 'n' me -- Midweek matin�e -- The Hull sit-in -- The hunched -- The shirt -- Emblems -- The sportsmen -- The happier life -- Five years married -- Runners -- The philologists -- After the war -- Alternative -- Modern love -- Guerrillas -- Under the stone -- The new girls -- Saturday night function -- A Faber melancholy -- Up in Duggie's room -- Bird poet -- Fixed -- Spoken to by six -- The hour. Subjects; English poetry. Poetry in English, 1945- Texts. English poetry 20th century. SCOTBIB (Works by Scottish authors or from Scottish publishers). Poetry collections.