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Winner of the Wells Festival of Literature Competition
15-23 October 2021
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The pantoum ’Notes On How To Pack’ was selected by judge Owen Sheers as overall winner of the 2021 Open Poetry competition.
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'A Sense of North' Launch
30th April, 'The Book Case', Hebden Bridge.
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'Words are important, especially when they delineate an empathy with the whole planet — human, vegetable, domestic, political and all the elements we are made of. Thus David makes a singular contribution to our understanding of the world.'
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Cicely Gill, Voice of Arran


'A Sense of North' Launch
17th March, Isle of Arran.
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'...resonance, aliveness, enthusiasm — these are attained through very close observation which manifests as care and love for such varied aspects of the world...'
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Wordsworth Trust Event
'In Grasmere at the Wordsworth Trust as part of the celebratory reading organised for the 2017-18 Poetry Business Writing School 10th March.’










