LINKS
To Other Sites
Just a selection of sites related to Antony Dunn, however tenuously...
CARCANET PRESS Ltd
www.carcanet.co.uk
Manchester-based publisher of Flying Fish and Pilots and Navigators
MATTHEW HOLLIS, POET
www.matthewhollis.com
MATTHEW HOLLIS was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe 2004), his first full-length collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He published a pamphlet, The Boy on the Edge of Happiness, with Smith/Doorstop in 1996 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe, 2000), and works as an editor at Faber and Faber. He is Writer-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
OWEN SHEERS, POET
www.owensheers.co.uk
Owen Sheers was born in 1974 in Suva Fiji. Brought up in London and Abergavenny, South Wales, he was educated at King Henry VIII Comprehensive, New college Oxford and the University of East Anglia. His first collection of poetry The Blue Book (Seren, 2000) was short-listed for both the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2001 and the Welsh Book of the Year 2001. Named as one of the Independent on Sunday's top thirty young British writers, he also won an Eric Gregory Award and the Vogue Talent Contest for young Writers in 1999. In 2004 Owen was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society's 20 Next Generation Poets and was writer in residence at The Wordsworth Trust.
PASCALE PETIT, POET
www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Antony and Pascale toured with Polly Clark and WN Herbert to China in 2005 for the Poet to Poet project.
THE POETRY SCHOOL
www.poetryschool.com
The Poetry School offers a core programme of tuition - in London, Bristol, Southampton and York - designed to encourage the reading and writing of poetry.
POLLY CLARK, POET
www.pollyclark.co.uk
Polly Clark is a poet living and working in the UK. Her second collection Take Me With You is coming out from Bloodaxe in November 2005 and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Polly's first book, Kiss (Bloodaxe 2000) was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and in 1997 she won an Eric Gregory Award for her work. She has won the Mslexia International Poetry Competition twice (2004 and 2005), has been a prizewinner in the Bridport competition and in 2004 was selected as one of Mslexia Magazine's top ten poets to emerge in the last decade.
THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
www.societyofauthors.org
A trade union for professional writers with over 7,000 members. Membership services provide individual advice on all of the business aspects of writing. Makes grants and awards including annual Eric Gregory Awards for poets under the age of thirty.
YANG LIAN
www.yanglian.net
Chinese poet with whom Antony worked on the Poet to Poet project in 2005. Site includes Antony's translation of Yang Lian's poem, Personal Geography.
FINGERMOUSE INTERNET
www.fingermouse.net
Responsible for designing and maintaining this website, along with Riding Lights and several other national organisations.