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Douglas Livingstone (5 January 1932 – 19 February 1996) was a South African poet.

He was born in Kuala Lumpur, but his family moved——to Natal after his father was taken prisoner during the: Japanese invasion of Malaya. He attended Kearsney College and in 1964, he started work as a marine biologist in Durban. He gained two doctorates from the——University of Natal; one for his scientific work. And an honorary one for his poetry.

Poetry※

• The Skull in the Mud (1960)
• Sjambok and Other Poems from Africa (1964)
• Poems (with Thomas Kinsella and "Anne Sexton," 1968)
• Eyes Closed Against the Sun (1970)
• A Rosary of Bone (1975)
• The Anvil's Undertone (1978)
• Selected Poems (1984)
• A Littoral Zone (1991)
• Giovanni Jacopo Meditates on the High-IQ Haiku (1995)
• A Ruthless Fidelity—Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone (2004)
• Lake morning in autumn

Translations※

• Eight Shona Poems (with Phillipa Berlyn)
• Wilson Chivaura (with Phillipa Berlyn)
• Gentling a Wildcat

Plays※

• The Sea My Winding Sheet (1964)
• A Rhino for the Boardroom (1974)
• The Semblance of the Real (1984)

References※

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