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David Wheatley: Douglas Dunn and Politovsky, 21 June 2001
The Donkey’s Ears: Politovsky’s Letters Home
by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 176 pp., £7.99, May 2000,0 571 20426 0 Show More
by Douglas Dunn.
Faber, 176 pp., £7.99, May 2000,
“... up from history for a commission he received from the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull in 1983, Douglas Dunn has made him the narrator of his book-length poem The Donkey’s Ears. It’s been a long journey for Politovsky this time round as well: after leaving the poem for many years Dunn picked it up again in 1997, about the time he found himself with lots ... ”