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]