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The Verb: Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn

Poetry Book Club with Douglas Dunn

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Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn.

Ian McMillan and the Poetry Book Club audience are joined by Douglas Dunn to discuss his debut collection Terry Street and his latest The Noise of a Fly.

The Verb this week is another chance to hear Ian McMillan's interview with the great Scottish poet Douglas Dunn, in front of our Poetry Book Club audience. 

Douglas Dunn is the author of over ten poetry collections. He published his debut in 1969, whilst working in the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull under Philip Larkin. The book, Terry Street, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Since then Douglas has continued to write poems that shine a light on the human condition - on our foibles, our desires, our fragility. His 2019 collection, The Noise of a Fly, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot award. Among other awards he received the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1985 for Elegies, a moving account of his wife's early death from cancer. Dunn was awarded the OBE in 2003 and is an Honorary Professor at St Andrews. 

Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Cecile Wright

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