Hugh Dunkerley at Waterstone's Chichester
Event Date: 01/05/2010
Hugh Dunkerley, whose new collection Hare is published by Cinnamon Press in April, will be appearing at Waterstone's Chichester.
"This original and confident collection depicts an unsettling contemporary world, where the quotidian is found to be profoundly other than expected, and a sense of troubled realism prevails. Acuity of observation, emotional depth and intellectual rigour inform Hugh Dunkerley’s work."
Penelope Shuttle
"What I admire about Hugh Dunkerley’s poetry is the spareness and clarity of his language: his ability to tackle the extremities of experience – death, sex, loss, the ruthlessness of nature – with a vision which is unsentimental and yet profoundly moving."
Vicki Feaver
Hugh Dunkerley lectures in Creative Writing and Contemporary Poetry and the Environment in Chichester. He has a particular interest in environmentalism and ecocriticism. His chapbook, Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press), came out in 1997 and Fast (Pighog Press) was published in 2007. He writes articles on contemporary poetry as well as reviewing for various magazines. He is also a several-times winner of the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year Award.
Saturday 1st May, Waterstone's Chichester, The Dolphin & Anchor, West Street, Chichester, PO19 1QD, 11am-1pm.