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| David Banks was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He spent ten years in a Catholicseminary, and five working as a civil servant before going to study philosophy, as a maturestudent, at Cambridge. Since 1975 he has been living abroad, first in Iraq, and subsequentlyin France. He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, and since then his poetry has appearedin over 50 magazines and anthologies in nine different countries on four continents.He has published four booklets of poems and a number of poemcards, posters and broadsheets,but this is his first major collection. Journeys to foreign countries frequently provide thesource material for his poems, and he claims that sound (or "music") is a particularly importantaspect of his work. He earns his living as Professor of English Linguistics at the Université deBretagne Occidentale at Brest in France. | ||
Books available from Poetry Salzburg: David Banks: Celt Seed. Selected Poems, February 2003. 104 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-13-8; ISBN-10 3-901993-13-4 Send an e-mail to order this book |
