Flying Fish
The poems in "Flying Fish" wrestle with our fascination with the sea, our helplessness in the face of love and loss, our fear of age and all that lies beyond. In them we glimpse "the otherlife" of things caught out of their own element. From the flying fish of the title poem to a prehistoric monster discovered on a market stall, this book is filled with characters and creatures who, for one strange moment, become more gloriously, or horribly, themselves than ever before.
About the author
Antony Dunn was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published two collections of poems, "Pilots and Navigators" (OxfordPoets,1998) and "Flying Fish" (OxfordPoets / Carcanet, 2002). 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", "Gooose Chase" and "Sheherds' Delight".