TONY DAWSON

Bio: Tony Dawson was born in London’s East End in 1937. In 1940, at the height of the Blitz, his family moved to a small town to the west of London to escape the bombing and that fraught journey has remained etched into his mind ever since. In fact, it was the theme of Embers, a poem published with a preface as an ‘Eyelet’ by the Shoestring Press (Nottingham) in 2020. For 18 years, he taught at the University in Seville, where he has lived since 1989, and, prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry (now Coventry University) and Principal Lecturer at Liverpool Polytechnic (now John Moores University). In 2013, he published his first poem, Lithuanian Cat’s Cradle in Critical Survey. After a seven-year hiatus, he took up writing again during the pandemic and has published some 120 items, mostly poems. His work, so far, has appeared in print in Critical Survey, Shoestring Press, Poems-for-All, Chiron Review, and Pure Slush, as well as online at Loch Raven Review, London Grip, The Five-Two, The Syndic Literary Journal, Horror Sleaze and Trash, Cajun Mutt Press, Poetry and Covid, Beatnik Cowboy, Retreats from Oblivion, Home Planet News, (in the latter case in both Spanish and English) and Literally Stories. In addition, he has published three small collections of poetry: Afterthoughts ISBN 9788119 228348, reviewed: https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/06/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-dawson/ Musings ISBN 97819115 819666, reviewed: https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/12/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-dawson-2/ and Reflections in a Dirty Mirror ISBN 9781915819949 reviewed: https://londongrip.co.uk/2024/04/london-grip-poetry-review-tony-dawson-3/ as well as a selection of flash fiction, Curiouser and Curiouser ISBN 9788119 654932.