Inbetween Days by Antony Dunn

Antony Dunn’s Inbetween Days inhabits the charged territory between childhood and parenthood: a place of intense pleasure, pressure, responsibility and joy. In poems that call and respond to his previous collection, Take This One to Bed, Dunn traces lines of inheritance and succession – from not-quite-grandfather to ‘hard-born, hard-won’ son, from poet to poet, from younger selves to older ones. These are poems of lives entangled with other lives, of sorrow accumulated and love stubbornly renewed, finding refuge in the most surprising places. Poised between celebration and lament, between the dead and the living, Inbetween Days is an urgent, intimate and vividly alive collection, written – after a decade’s distraction – during a year-long residency in the poet’s own back-garden shed.