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 and at the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2010. He also writes for the theatre and his plays include Dog Blue, Goose Chase and Shepherds’ Delight.
He is Assistant Director of the Bridlington Poetry Festival and an Artistic Associate of Nottingham-based Useful Donkey Theatre Company.
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Forthcoming Events & News
READINGS COMING UP
Sun 1 Apr, 3.00pm
York Literature Festival, UK
Antony Dunn, Abi Curtis, Carole Bromley & Jack Mapanje
Friargate Theatre, York, YO1 9SL
Box Office 01904 613000
Tickets £7.00
If you would like to arrange a reading in the UK or elsewhere,
please e-mail contact@antonydunn.org
NEW POEMS PUBLISHED
Eighteen commissioned by Carol Ann Duffy for Jubilee Lines (Faber 2012 - see p62 of catalogue)
Cold Case in A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, ed. Peter Robinson (Two Rivers Press 2012)
Boys and How About This? in The North, October 2011
Torch Song in Poetry Review, autumn 2011
Advent commissioned by Carol Ann Duffy for The Guardian, December 2010
Animal Rescue included in the anthology Soul Feathers, published in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support.
from Departures and Calling included in Magma, issue #50, June 2011
Revelator, Cleopas and Kings included in KJV: Old Text - New Poetry (Wivenbooks).
Just Here commissioned by Art for Humanity (South Africa) and translated into Zulu
Dymock in Poetry London, autumn 2010
Several translations included in New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation
REVIEW OF BUGS IN ACUMEN
INTERVIEWS
2012 interview for NAWE's Young Writers' Hub by Cara Brennan, 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.
THE POEMS OF RUPERT BROOKE ON CD
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
BOOMERANG - SEVENTEEN YEARS
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