Bugs
"Bugs" are the insects we live alongside, necessary and unsettling; they're the fears, the ailments and spies that keep us wide awake at night. The stories in Antony Dunn's third collection range from the microscopic lives of parasitic worms to the lives of the planets themselves. We go from the miniature world of the flea circus to the invisible pervasiveness of electronic surveillance. In an uneasy world, Dunn's characters face down their terrors and find in science, in faith, in love, the courage to go on.
Now heartening, now heartbroken, "Bugs" turns a magnifying glass on the world to reveal its fascinating strangeness.
Now heartening, now heartbroken, "Bugs" turns a magnifying glass on the world to reveal its fascinating strangeness.
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".
Reviews
"An often unique voice... subtle, thought-provoking and enormously readable" – Poetry Review
"Poems which, Brodsky-like, take the reader somewhere new, jinking round the corners of places we think we know into imagined elsewheres" – Poetry Wales
"Poems which, Brodsky-like, take the reader somewhere new, jinking round the corners of places we think we know into imagined elsewheres" – Poetry Wales