Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizesfrom microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt and terror of life, this examination embraces literary influences from all over the world, learning from the cultural difficulties and legacies left behind.Revealing the far-reaching effects of everyday occurrences, this remarkable compilation follows people as they go about their lives and find themselves caught up in astounding public and private events."

About the Author
Antony Dunn was born in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received a Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published two previous collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (OxfordPoets 1998) and Flying Fish (Carcanet / OxfordPoets 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 alert, intelligent book... poems which, Brodsky-like, take the reader somewhere new, jinking round the corners of places we think we know into imagined elsewheres... there's much to admire Poetry Wales"



Book Information
ISBN 9781903039953
Author Anthony Dunn
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint OxfordPoets
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 91g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 8mm