Poet and dub troubadour Aidan Andrew Dun's prolific output includes epic poems and original music, including the legendary The Cool Shall Inherit. (UK Transculture). Born in London,raised for ten (in)formative years in the West Indies.

The grandson of dancer Dame Marie Rambert, Dun listened to her recitations of Milton and Homer late into the night. This gave him not only a passion for epic poetry but the ability to entice others into his love for it. At the age of five he announced that he would write the Comedy of London - at age seventeen he disappeared from school and took up as a troubadour traveling from Amsterdam to Marrakech. Dun was inevitably drawn back to London by its treasure house of myth. Living in derelict and abandoned mansions for many years, he explored streets and libraries, decoding the magical geometry of King's Cross, magnet to visionaries before him. The result, Vale Royal (pub.
Goldmark) , was launched at the Albert Hall ( an event fabulised by Iain Sinclair in 'Lights Out for the Territory'). Written in the form of a quest, Dun’s epic poem dreams of transforming the urban wasteland of King's Cross into a city of canals - Blake's Jerusalem in the heart of Babylon.

His newly-released epic poem, Universal, explores at its deepest levels the double enigma of form and formlessness:sacred gender. This narrative rollercoaster of a poem whirlwinds through holy lands and pilgrimage places, decoding ancient riddles of sacred sexuality. Pursuing dangerous autobiographical detours, Dun sweeps the reader on a remarkable journey through transculture: London, the West Indies, North Africa, India.

"A compelling and original voice..."
John Greening view Times Literary Supplement review

"Dun's range of subject matter and use of language astonish right from the outset."
Hilary Davies view London Magazine review

"Dun stands apart from all schools and schisms...He is the carefully regulated trickle of water that cracks stone."
Iain Sinclair

"Vale Royal moves with the ease and clarity of a fresh spring over ancient stones, making its myths casual even colloquial- An impressive achievement."
Derek Walcott

"He has an extraordinary sense of the past. He’s one of those people, along with Blake and Chatterton and others, who are like a divining rod for history."
Peter Ackroyd

"If there was such a show as Top of the Poets, Aidan Andrew Dun would be on it."
Michael Ellison reviewing the Royal Albert Hall in the Evening Standard

Aidan Andrew Dun is a visionary, a pied piper of modern poetry. If it is possible to be lost and found at the same time, then this is how (Vale Royal) makes one feel.
Kate Kellaway in The Independent.

An epic both deeply idiosyncratic and inescapably public...the poem rewards many readings. An enduring mystical epic has been added to our literature.
Michael Moorcock reviewing Vale Royal in The New Statesman