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.
“An often unique voice… subtle, thought-provoking and enormously readable”
Poetry Review
Paul Farley investigates the relationship between poets and blood-sucking parasites, such as the Leech, the Flea and the Mosquito. Features Antony Dunn in conversation with Simon Croft, Head of Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and reading poems from his third collection, Bugs.
Tue 27 Apr 2010, time tbc
LEEDS
for The Cadaverine
details to be announced
Thu 27 May 2010, eve
WIVENHOE, Essex
The Greyhound, High Street, CO7 9AZ
Tickets: £5
Further information: Chris Tanner, poetry wivenhoe
chris.tanner@tiscali.co.uk, 01206 827612
Sat 12 Jun 2010, time tbc
BRIDLINGTON
Bridlington Poetry Festival
Sewerby Hall
The Poetry of Dorothy Molloy; selected and read by Colette Bryce and Antony Dunn
Hare Soup, Dorothy Molloy's first collection of poems, was published by Faber in 2004, just weeks after the poet's untimely death. A startling début, its deftly crafted poems are as unsettling as they are affecting, exploring a world of intimacy from the tensely erotic to something altogether more malevolent. Poets Colette Bryce and Antony Dunn, both great admirers of Molloy’s poems, read from Hare Soup and from Molloy’s two posthumous collections; Gethsemane Day (Faber, 2006), which confronts individual illness and death and celebrates survival with all the anarchic zest, mordancy and lyric drive of its predecessor, and Long-distance Swimmer (Salmon Poetry, 2009). Booking details to be announced
Fri 23 Jul 2010, time tbc
GRIMSBY
for Driftnet Poets
Millfields Hotel, Bargate
details to follow
Mon 2 Aug 2010, 7.30pm
RICHMOND, North Yorks
Poems and Pints
Georgian Theatre Royal, First Floor Bar
Admission FREE
www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.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
NEW POEMS PUBLISHED
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
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