ANTONY DUNN was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received a Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published two collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (Oxford Poets 1998) and Flying Fish, (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2002) and a third, Bugs, is forthcoming.
His writing for theatre and film has included Goose Chase and Shepherds' Delight (both for Riding Lights Theatre Company), Timewarp 2000 (Barbican, York) and a screen adaption of Albert Camus' stageplay, Cross Purpose (First Man Productions). In 2006 he contributed lyrics to Mark Ravenhill's pantomime, Dick Whittington and His Cat (Barbican, London).
Antony is Head of Communications at York Theatre Royal, and an Artistic Associate of Useful Donkey Theatre Company. He was Poet in Residence at the University of York for 2006.
“An often unique voice… subtle, thought-provoking and enormously readable”
Poetry Review
Antony's third collection of poems, Bugs, will be published by Carcanet OxfordPoets in 2009.
Individual poems from Bugs have already appeared in various publications, including English Review, The Manhattan Review, Oxford Poetry, Oxford Today, PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Quadrant (Australia), and at www.nthposition.com and www.thepoem.co.uk
3rd International Festival of Contemporary Poetry
Zagreb, 15th – 17th April 2008
Readings in “Gjuro II” and “Booksa” in Zagreb (Croatia) by 11 young authors. Eight of them come from Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland and Great Britain. Three poets are from Croatia.
3rd International Festival of Contemporary Poetry will be officially opened on 15th April 2008 at 8pm, when all eleven authors will appear in club “Gjuro II”.
On 16th and 17th April, the authors will perform in “Booksa” at 7pm, where the audience will have the opportunity to experience the contemporary European poetry and get to know the poets in person.
Wednesday 16th April, from 7pm: Sara Ventroni from Italy, Sanna Tahvanainen from Finland, Maria Barnas from the Netherlands, Stanka Hrastelj from Slovenia and Croatian poets Marko Pogacar and Dorta Jagic.
Thursday 17th April, from 7pm: Filipa Leal from Portugal, Silke Scheuermann from Germany, Antony Dunn from Great Britain, Vilde Heggem from Norway and Marijana Šutic Pavlicevich from Croatia.
CONVERGING LINES in ATHENS
Tue 11 - Wed 12 March 2008
JULIA COPUS, ANTONY DUNN, MATTHEW HOLLIS & CLARE POLLARD
Teaching and performing for The British Council
Find out more here
Israel & Scotland
April / May 2007
with Polly Clark, Rody Gorman, WN Herbert, Amir Or, Ayman Agbaria, Nidaa Khoury & Yael Globerman
A mutual translation project involving poets writing in English, Scottish & Irish Gaelic, Hebrew and Arabic.
Click here for Antony's tour diary.
Antony, with Valerie Bloom, Colette Bryce, Michael Donaghy and Ruth Padel, was commissioned to write a poem for the Victoria & Albert Museum. See the poems, and the video of Antony reading 'Antimony' here:
V&A
Some of Antony's new poems have been published at:
Limelight, the web magazine at www.thepoem.co.uk
Quadrant (Australia), Literary Editor Les Murray. Click here
