Antony Dunn was born in London in 1973 and lives in Leeds. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published three collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (Oxford University Press 1998), Flying Fish (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2002) and Bugs (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2009).
Antony is a regular tutor for The Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation. He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and was Poet in Residence at the University of York for 2006. He also writes for the theatre and his plays include Dog Blue, Goose Chase and Shepherds’ Delight.
Antony lives in Leeds, where he works as Head of Communications at Yorkshire Dance, and as Artistic Associate of Nottingham-based Useful Donkey Theatre Company. He is Assistant Director of the Bridlington Poetry Festival 2010 (Fri 11 - Sun 13 Jun) and has been appointed Poet in Residence to the Ilkley Literature Festival 2010.
“I’m really enjoying Antony Dunn’s new collection Bugs. I’ve been a fan of Antony’s careful and precise verse for years”
Ian McMillan
“An often unique voice… subtle, thought-provoking and enormously readable”
Poetry Review
Mon 2 Aug 2010, 7.30pm
RICHMOND, North Yorks
Poems and Pints
Georgian Theatre Royal, First Floor Bar
Admission FREE
www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk
Sun 17 Oct, 4.00pm
Antony Dunn & Douglas Dunn
Ilkley Literature Festival
Wildman Studio, Ilkley Playhouse
[tickets not on sale yet]
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
If you would like to arrange a reading in the UK or elsewhere, please e-mail contact@antonydunn.org
Read more about Bugs here
One poem from Bugs, Love Poetry, included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2010's Highly Commended Poems
One poem from Bugs, June the Fourth, in 3:AM
One new poem, Torch Song, in forthcoming Poetry Review
One new poem, The Poets' Path, in the Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2010
Several translations included in New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation
Read an extract from the review by Edmund Prestwich here
CADAVERINE publishes the best new poetry and prose by emerging authors under the age of 25. Its website features an interview with Antony Dunn from December 2009.
Useful Donkey Theatre Company, which presented Mark Payton's inspired and meticulous play, Rupert Brooke, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, has released a CD of Brooke's poems.
Read by actors and poets including Antony Dunn, Andrew Motion, Ian McMillan, James Wilby, Ian Duhig, Michael Symmons Roberts and Matthew Hollis, the CD is on sale now at Useful Donkey's website
£1 from every copy sold will be donated to the Armed Forces Memorial Appeal. www.forcesmemorial.org.uk
Antony and his friend Simon Frost are Boomerang. Their first album, Seventeen Years, was released in 2004, and is now re-released and on sale again while Boomerang are in the studio, finishing off a new EP! Buy it here for a mere £5