Antony Dunn Seminars – Summer Sessions 2026
Extra Summer sessions of Antony Dunn's intimate monthly seminars.
Monthly Seminars 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 4 Seminar Groups available this Summer: one at 1 City Square in Leeds (LS1 5EB), one at the Friargate Theatre in York (YO1 9SL), one at the Salts Works in Saltaire (BD18 3JF), and one running on Zoom.
Entry into Seminars is by application only. If you would like to sign up, please contact us at [email protected] and we will assist you in the application process. Please do not book online before applying.
4 x monthly sessions between June and September. 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.
Zoom
2-Jun
7-Jul
4-Aug
1-Sep
York – Friargate Theatre, YO1 9SL
4-Jun
9-Jul
6-Aug
2-Sep
Leeds – 1 City Square, LS1 5EB
10-Jun
15-Jul
12-Aug
9-Sep
Saltaire – Salts Works, BD18 3JF
12-Jun
16-Jul
13-Aug
10-Sep
More information about how all our seminars work can be found on the Seminars Course Page.
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Antony Dunn 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). His fifth is published by Valley Press in October 2026. Winner of the Newdigate Prize and an Eric Gregory Award, he is a regular tutor for The Poetry School and has taught many times for the Arvon Foundation. He has worked on translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of York, Ilkley Literature Festival and the People Powered Press. Until 2018 he was Artistic Director of the Bridlington Poetry Festival. He lives in Leeds.
‘I feel like I learnt a lot from the tutor whose subject knowledge was excellent and feedback spot on. We were introduced to an interesting array of writing and I enjoyed the writing exercises/prompts.’