Bugs

Overview

Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizes—from 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.

Reviews

"Dunn's considerable talent . . . rewards the reader with epiphanies, annunciations of light, poems refreshingly affirmative." —Dannie Abse, poet, on Flying Fish

"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 on Flying Fish

Author Biography

Antony Dunn is the author of two collections of poems, Flying Fish and Pilots and Navigators. He is the recipient of both the Newdigate Prize and the Society of Authors' Eric Gregory Award.