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He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University.[1]Maclennan’s academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town.[2] He taught in both South Africa and the United States.[3] He began teaching at Rhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years,[2] although he officially retired in 1994. In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade.[4]In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry.[4] In his last decade, Maclennan had motor-neuron disease. He suffered a stroke in January 2009, although his mind was not affected by it. He died on 9 February 2009, in Port Elizabeth.[2]Bibliography[edit]Years link to corresponding “[year] in poetry” article for poetry; for literature, to corresponding “[year] in literature” article:Poetry[edit]1971: In Memoriam Oskar Wolberheim, A.A. Balkema, combining Maclennan’s poetry and the music of Norbert Nowotny[1]1977: Life Songs, Bateleur Press[1]Bateleur Poets, ISBN\u00a0978-0-620-02281-1[5]1983: Reckonings,[1] New Africa Books, ISBN\u00a0978-0-908396-95-5[6]1988: Collecting Darkness, Justified Press, ISBN\u00a0978-0-9474510-3-5[1]1992: Letters: New Poems, Carrefour Press, ISBN\u00a0978-0-9583178-7-0[7]1995: The Poetry Lesson: New Poems[1] Snailpress, ISBN\u00a0978-1-874923-25-1[8]1997: Solstice: Poems, ISBN\u00a0978-1-874923-40-4,[9] winner of South Africa’s Sanlam Literary Award for 1997[1]1998: Of Women and Some Men[1] with George Coutouvidis, Firfield Poetry Press, ISBN\u00a0978-1-875058-16-7[10]2001:2002: Rock paintings at Salem, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2002: The Road to Kromdraai,[1] Publisher Snailpress, ISBN\u00a0978-1-874923-63-3[12]2003: The Dinner Party, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2003: A Letter to William Blake, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2003: Under Compassberg, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2004: Excavations,[1] self-published, Rhodes University GSU2005: Reading the Signs, Carapace2006: The necessary salt, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2006: Selected Poems, Quartz Press2007: The owl of Minerva, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2008: Through a Glass Darkly, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2010: Dress Rehearsal, self-published, Rhodes University GSU2012: Collected Poems, Print Matters Heritage Press (ed. Dan Wylie) ISBN 978-0-987009562Other works[edit]An Enquiry into the Voyage of the Santiago, a play[4]Job Mava, a play, written and performed in 1972\/3 by The Ikhwezi Players, published 1981\/2[4]My Childhood, adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s play, performed in 1975 by The Ikhwezi Players[4]2004: Editor, with Malcolm Hacksley, A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone,[1] publisher: Ad Donker, ISBN\u00a0978-0-86852-232-6[13]Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler[1] Publisher: D. Philip, ISBN\u00a0978-0-908396-92-4[14]Sarah Christie, Don Maclennan, Geoffrey Hutchings, Perspectives on South African Fiction, Publisher Ad. Donker, ISBN\u00a0978-0-949937-74-2[15]^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o “Maclennan, Donald (Alasdair Calum)” article, Student Encyclopedia of African Literature, by Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007ISBN\u00a0978-0-313-33580-8, retrieved via Google Books on 13 February 2009^ a b c Loewe, Mike, “Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79”, article, 12 February 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article “was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009”, according to the Web page, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Prof Don A C MacLennan”[permanent dead link] at Rhodes University website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ a b c d e “RIP Don Maclennan: 1929 \u2013 2009. February 10th, 2009 by Ben \u2013 Editor”, article at Book SA News website, retrieved 13 February 2009 Archived 13 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine^ “Bateleur Poets” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Reckonings” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Letters: New Poems” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “The Poetry Lesson: New Poems” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Solstice: Poems” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Of Women and Some Men” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Notes from a Rhenish Mission” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “The Road to Kromdraai” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009^ “Perspectives on South African Fiction” at BookFinder.com website, retrieved 13 February 2009  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/don-maclennan-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Don Maclennan – Wikipedia"}}]}]