Graham Dunstan Martin

Graham Dunstan Martin (21 October 1932, Leeds – 27 March 2021) was a British author, translator, and philologist.

Martin was an opponent of materialist philosophy. He was the author of Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists which gravitates towards idealism and neutral monism as an alternative. He also authored Living On Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value which argued for purpose and value in the universe.

Selected publications

Fiction Giftwish (Drew, 1978) Catchfire (Drew, 1981) The Soul Master (Unwin, 1984) Time-Slip (Unwin, 1986) The Dream Wall (Unwin Hyman, 1987) Half a Glass of Moonshine (Unwin Hyman, 1988)

Non-fiction Shadows in the Cave: Mapping the Conscious Universe (London: Penguin Arkana, 1990) An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction – Fantasy and Truth (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) Living on Purpose: Meaning, Intention and Value (Floris, 2008) Does It Matter?: The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. Edinburgh: Floris, 2005. Language Truth and Poetry: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1975. The Architecture of Experience: A Discussion of the Role of Language and Literature in the Construction of the World. Edinburgh: At the University Press, 1981.

Edited Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.

Translated Paul Valéry. The Graveyard by the Sea. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. Louise Labé, pseud. Charly van Louise , Sonnets. With Introduction and Commentaries by Peter Sharratt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974. Jules Laforgue, Selected Poems. London, England: Penguin Books, 1998.