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The Endless Surprise of Poetry

Friday 8 October 2010

GSAL The Endless Surprise of Poetry

Poet Antony Dunn celebrated National Poetry Day with pupils at The Grammar School at Leeds.

During the morning he conducted a poetry workshop, based on poems by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, with Year 6 pupils visiting GSAL from Westville House School in Ilkley.

He spent the afternoon with GSAL A level English Literature students, using poems by Carol Ann Duffy and Ted Hughes as stimulus for their own writing. He talked about using unexpected words and the “endless surprise” that poetry brings to readers’ lives.

Antony Dunn is this year’s poet in residence at The Ilkley Literature Festival. He is an award winning poet who is also a regular tutor at The Poetry School in Leeds and Harrogate. Among his works are Judith with the Head of Holofernes and two collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators and Flying Fish, and a third, Bugs, is forthcoming. Antony Dunn was also poet in residence at the University of York in 2006.

GSAL is sponsoring the Carol Ann Duffy event at this year’s Ilkley Festival.

Photographed (L-R) Liberty Jackson, Francesca Cherry, David Woods, poet Anthony Dunn, Sibley Berty, Eleanor Rose and Jack Bickler.

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