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'On The Other Side' was commended by the Nottingham Poetry Competition (Adjudicator Penelope Shuttle). Here is an earlier draft:

'Transit' can be found at Able Muse:

http://www.ablemuse.com/v7/poetry/alan-dunnett/transit

David Angus has produced Civil War and Practical (his voice) as seen at http://www.therecusant.org.uk/#/alandunnettpoems/4532603888

Beggars and The Last Race appear in the competition anthology The Ver Prize 2009. The adjudicator was John Whitworth and the poems were heard at the Maltings Arts Theatre in St Albans on 4th July 09:

The producer was William Walsh.



Compania Pendiente are using A Bed for the Long Night:

http://www.fabrikpotsdam.de/index.php?p=programm&id=535&lang=EN


A Bed for the Long Night came 3rd in the Torbay Poetry Competition, part of the festival. The organiser is Patricia Oxley who also edits Acumen. These recordings (my voice) produced by David Angus:



Many thanks to Anna Andresen and David Angus for providing a voice for the Hamlet poem. They have also done In Bed With Macbeth, which follows straight after.



Pinstripe Hype will soon be releasing their EP called Class. Ugly can be heard here.

Pinstripe Hype are:
Andy Preston   |   Guitars and vocals
James Peters   |   Bass
Zaki Orbell   |   Vocals
Rob Murphy   |   Drums
Rhodri Pazzi-Axworthy   |   Keyboards

Class recorded live at the Carling Academy Islington, 23 November 2006
All songs written by Preston/Peters except "Ugly", lyrics by Alan Dunnett, music by Preston/ Peters
All songs © Market Songs, 2006
© Pinstripe Hype 2006



I have a bit in John Biggs' revised edition of Teaching for Quality Learning at University, which he has written with Catherine Tang. He is a novelist as well as an educationalist and can be visited at:
http://www.johnbiggs.com.au/


Writers! Drama Centre London is now recruiting for its MA Screen WRITING pathway. Application forms can be obtained from the Information Office of Central St Martins College of Art & Design: +44 (0)20 7428 2078. Or email me - mail@alandunnett.co.uk - if you have an inquiry about some aspect of the pathway. There are also directing and acting pathways. This link takes you to some former 2nd year acting students:

http://www.dramacentrelondon.com/Site%207/Actors2.html



Detain appears in Orbis 131, having come third in the Middlesex University International Poetry Competition.

Poems can be seen in the current issues of The Rialto, Weyfarers, Assent and Pennine Platform and at http://www.therecusant.org.uk/ [contributors], http://nthposition.com/author.php?authid=556, http://shadowtrain.com/id82.html, http://www.freewebs.com/measuremag/poems.htm, http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2007/05/identity-by-alan-dunnett.html, http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2006/08/underwater-or-plunder-by-alan-dunnett.html and http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com/2007/06/three-by-alan-dunnett.html. Forthcoming: Dream Catcher, Other Poetry and The Interpreter's House.

Good to see Kevin Fegan very active, not just as a playwright of standing but as a poet, currently being published by Five Leaves. We gave some poetry readings together, through East Midlands Arts, about 15 years ago.

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