Alan Dunnett

Alan Dunnett was born in London in 1953.

His chewy poetry 1 has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Stand, Orbis, The Rialto, The Interpreter's House, Other Poetry, Outposts, Weyfarers ('I'm not fond of doggie poems as a genre ... the one by Alan Dunnett is sad') 2, Poetry Nottingham, Pennine Platform, Dream Catcher, The Reader, New Poetry 6 (edited by Ted Hughes), The Methuen Book of Theatre Verse and Look: I'm Seeing A Vibration; also, a collection, Hurt Under Your Arm, published by Envoi, and two pamphlets, In the Savage Gap (with beautiful paper and typeface) 3 and Look!. Among his most keenly received works is Detain, having come third by a whisker in the Middlesex University International Poetry Competition 4.

Alan Dunnett mentions animal breathings of concentration. 5