David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka and in a variety of educational settings. He also worked with homeless people in London before finding his way into twenty years’ work in Steiner education. Two Collections for children stem from this period and ‘A Treasury of Trees’, (2017) and ‘A Treasury of Plants’, (2020) for adults, (all published by Wynstones Press). 2020 also saw the publication of ‘Common Wealth’ (Matador), a panoramic collection of poems spanning prehistoric times to the present. ‘A Seasons’ Treasury’ comprises three privately printed collections here brought together for the first time and recording living through the seasons in rural Dorset and Herefordshire.
Follow the changing seasons through all their wealth of growth and flowering, through autumn’s fall, the withering of winter and all the challenging varieties of weather that can accompany these changes. These poems, written over a period of 30 years, are essentially poems of celebration: of immer...
