Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Selected Poems of Robert Desnos Seren The poems in Antony Dunn's

The poems in Antony Dunn's fourth collection explore the passions and tensions of how we live together – as neighbours

Eliot and the Forward prizes in 2011

skins and edges are sheared or lost

Its sequel

taking us behind the chain-link fence of the dump to witness the sublime mess we’ve made of things

Surrealist, Lover, Resistant: Selected Poems of Robert Desnos Seren The poems in Antony Dunn'sThis extensive and wide ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century, the surrealist Robert Desnos. Hailed as the prophet of the Surrealist movement by Andr Breton, Desnos was a hugely influential figure across all art forms at the time, and yet today his work completely underrepresented in the English language, with only his childrens poems currently available in