A PRODUCTION FROM RIDING LIGHTS / READ WRITE YORK

POETRY DOUBLES 2

DOUGLAS DUNN
with HENRY SHUKMAN

The second of the Poetry Doubles series, featuring an established poet and his or her own choice of a second poet - an exciting, emerging talent - presenting some of our most influential and our most promising new writers side by side.

DOUGLAS DUNN's first collection of poetry, Terry Street, was published in 1969, and was awarded both a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Love or Nothing (1974) was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1976. His other poetry books include St. Kilda's Parliament (1981), winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1981, and the acclaimed Elegies (1985), winner of Whitbread Book of the Year. Secret Villages, a collection of short stories, was published in 1985. More recent publications include a collection of short stories, Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1995), and three poetry collections, The Donkey's Ears (2000), The Year's Afternoon (2000) and New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2002).

In addition to his collections of poetry and short stories, Dunn has edited various anthologies and critical works. He has also written several television and radio plays, and has published a translation of Racine's Andromache (1990).

Douglas Dunn’s Poetry Double is HENRY SHUKMAN, whose first collection, In Dr No’s Garden (Cape 2002) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

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