David Hart
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Location | Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Born Aberystwyth. Student London and Wells;in Birmingham U chaplain, theatre critic, arts administrator, as a poet pt posts at Warwick (Writing Programme) and Birmingham U (Lifelong Learning) U; residencies at poetry festivals, in psychiatric and general hospitals and at Worcester Cathedral; Birmingham Poet Laureate 1997-98, has won 1st and 2nd in National Poetry Comp.. My Running out, Five Seasons Press is a collecting together of work since Setting the poem to words (1998) and Crag Inspector (2002). My ancestry is in London, mainly the East End (and South Essex), where people I can trace came from across the country in the late 18th to mid-19thC. Names include on my father's side: Hart, Restell, Lewis, Yelverton, Copeland, Wrenn,. And on my mother's side: Cole, Brown, Stanley, Pond, Bradley. I am an elected Member of the Welsh Academy. Titanic Cafe poem booklet 2009 and Misky (Flarestack). 2012-13 Library of Birmingham Poet. Library Inspector or The One Book Library (Nine Arches, 2015). Currently working on poems.Email djhart11(at)mac.com. |
| Favorite Music | 'Favourite music' sounds like whimsical this and that, whereas a life of music is something else. From growing up singing in the choir of St Michael's church, Aberystwyth, then in the Chelmsford Cathedral concert choir, the London University concert choir; also in a performance in London of Cornelius Cardew's Great Learning, inviting the London Arts Lab musicians to play in St Michael's Highgate, c.1968, and so on, through Beatles and Stones parties in Moseley, B'ham, Pink Floyd live at B'ham University, and a life of CDs of Bach, Beethoven, 'early music', and so on, concerts in B'ham Town Hall, then Symphony Hall, and recently new music at the CBSO Centre. How otherwise could poetry be made? |