{{Short description|English poet and dramatist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Antony Dunn | image = antonydunn.jpg | image_size = 180px | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|6|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [[London, England]]

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'''Antony Dunn''' is an [[England|English]] poet and dramatist. He was born in [[London]] in 1973. He won the [[Newdigate Prize]] for ''Judith with the Head of Holofernes'' in 1995<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/inewd.html |title=The Newdigate Prize |access-date=20 January 2010 |archive-date=21 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321222519/http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index/inewd.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and received a [[Society of Authors]] [[Eric Gregory Award]] in 2000. He has published four collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (Oxford Poets 1998), Flying Fish (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2002),<ref>{{citation |title=New Writing: Poetry |author=C Bennett |journal=English Studies |year=2004}}</ref> Bugs (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2009) and Take This One to Bed (Valley Press 2016).

He edited and introduced Ex Libris, a posthumous collection of poems by David Hughes (Valley Press 2015).

Antony Dunn was Poet in Residence at the [[University of York]] for 2006 and for the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2010.

His writing for [[theatre]] and [[film]] has included Goose Chase and Shepherds' Delight (both for [[Riding Lights Theatre Company]]), Timewarp 2000 (Barbican, York) and a screen adaption of [[Albert Camus]]' stageplay, Cross Purpose (First Man Productions). In 2006 he contributed lyrics to Mark Ravenhill's pantomime, ''[[Dick Whittington and His Cat]]'' (Barbican, London).

==External links== * [http://www.antonydunn.org Official website]

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