Antony Dunn Seminars 2026/27
Intimate monthly seminars with Antony Dunn.
Monthly seminar groups with Antony Dunn, featuring close reading, in-depth discussion and feedback on your poems-in-progress, as well as conversation around contemporary poetry and guidance on your next steps as a poet. With a maximum of six students in each group, these seminars provide an intimate setting and generate supportive and critical friendships, helping you to become part of a poetry community.
Antony has 5 Seminar Groups available: one at the The People Powered Press, Salts Works in Saltaire, one at the 1 City Square in Leeds, one at the Friargate Theatre in York, one that will run on Zoom, and a new addition in Ilkley at the Grove Bookshop.
Entry into Seminars is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please email [email protected] for information and we will assist you in the application process.
Do not book online before applying.
8 x monthly sessions between October and May. Sessions will run 6.15–8.45pm on the below dates; you can choose your specific group at the next stage in the checkout process.
Ilkley – Mondays – Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG
12-Oct
9-Nov
7-Dec
11-Jan
8-Feb
8-Mar
12-Apr
10-May
Zoom – Tuesdays
6-Oct
3-Nov
1-Dec
5-Jan
2-Feb
2-Mar
6-Apr
4-May
Leeds – Wednesdays – 1 City Square, Park Row, Leeds LS1 5EB
14-Oct
11-Nov
9-Dec
13-Jan
10-Feb
10-Mar
14-Apr
12-May
York – Thursdays – Friargate Theatre, YO1 9SL
8-Oct
4-Nov (Wednesday)
3-Dec
7-Jan
4-Feb
4-Mar
8-Apr
6-May
Saltaire – Thursdays – The People Powered Press, BD18 3JF
15-Oct
12-Nov
10-Dec
14-Jan
11-Feb
11-Mar
15-Apr
13-May
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
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Antony Dunn was born in London in 1973 and lives in Leeds. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published four collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (Oxford University Press 1998), Flying Fish (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2002), Bugs (Carcanet OxfordPoets 2009) and Take This One to Bed (Valley Press 2016). He also edited and introduced Ex Libris, a posthumous collection of poems by David Hughes (Valley Press 2015). Antony is a regular tutor for The Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation. 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 and at the Ilkley Literature Festival in 2010. Until 2018 he was Artistic Director of the Bridlington Poetry Festival.
"Antony is just the most astute and insightful workshop leader. He understands poetry, but he also understands people. It's a very special combination, which means everyone grows under his care."
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