David Sutton | David Suttons poetry website

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About me Hello. My name is David Sutton. I am seventy-seven years old; I was born in Hertfordshire and now live in a village in Oxfordshire; I am a retired computer programmer; I have been writing poetry for fifty-nine years and this is my poetry site.Let’s start with a bit of disambiguation. I am not the David Sutton who writes horror fiction and edits the Fortean Times. I am not the David Sutton who writes books on wild flowers. I am not the David Sutton who is the former leader of Reading Borough Council. I am not David Sutton the archivist. I am not David Sutton the singer, David Sutton the photographer nor David Sutton the footballer. In fact I am not any of the other David Suttons out there except me. From the Google point of view it is clearly a bad career move for a poet not to have a distinctive name, and I have toyed with the idea of changing mine; I quite fancied ‘William Shakespeare’ but apparently that one’s already been taken.Here is a list of my publications to date:‘Out on A Limb’ (Rapp Whiting, 1969)‘Absences and Celebrations’ (Chatto Windus, 1982)‘Flints’ (Peterloo Poets, 1986)‘Settlements’ (Peterloo Poets, 1991)‘The Planet Happiness’ (Gruffyground Press, 1996)‘A Holding Action’ (Peterloo Poets, 2000)‘New and Selected Poems 1965-2005’ (Peterloo Poets, 2005)‘No Through Road’ (The Greenwich Exchange, 2013) Collected Poems 1965-2018 , (The Greenwich Exchange, 2019)It seems customary at this point to list one’s tokens of recognition – laureateships held, Nobel prizes won, that sort of thing. The best I can currently offer in this department is to say that most people, whether other poets or general readers, who come across my poems seem to like them, sometimes, apparently, quite a lot. I could put together a screed of complimentary quotes from reviews, but I’d rather you just read a few yourself and see what you think. To this end I provide some samples from my work over the years, beginning with one or two from my first collection and ending with a couple from my recently published collection, No Through Road . These poems are copyright © David Sutton.For those who just want a quick one poem taster of my work, I also provide a Quick Sample page, featuring one poem which I ll ring the changes on fairly often.I also include a Poem of the Week page in which I feature some of my favourite poems by other people; I update it weekly, normally on a Friday, or if not at least by Sunday. I have no wish to impose my taste on anyone, but I am myself always interested to know what poems other people carry in their hearts and heads, so thought I would share a few that I carry in mine.Finally there is an FAQ. If anyone has specific questions about my poems I will gladly do my best to answer them, but I don’t go in for general philosophising of the ‘why do you write poetry’ or ‘what do you think is the role of the poet in today’s society’ kind. And I’m afraid I can’t undertake to comment on your poems or help you to get published. With those caveats, my contact details can be found on the Contact Me page.News flash31/3/2019. My Collected Poems has just been published and is available from Greenwich Exchange. For further details see the News page. Like, as in tick , as in symbol of endorsement. Heard The Good Old Days on Sunday s Poetry Please . Liked. Looked here. Liked more. My coddled daughters , centrally heated, can only like; imagine.Thank you Mr. Sutton.Incidentally, I knew a David Sutton Film Sound Recordist. me too, heard it on poetry please, thought my Dad would like it.I liked the others too.good poems, not too contorted, very refreshing.II ve just found your website, (Ian s glued to England s game at the moment), and I must instantly congratulate you on your poetry achievements, you very dark horse!We know you have written poetry, indeed Ian bought me one of your books, in which you kindly personalised it for me. To now know you have been featured in Poetry Please (and I missed it) I am truly in awe of your writing achievements. Indeed, I look up to you! I don t know exactly what your forthcoming Tuesday s award is for, or the occasion itself. If you would like to share this information with us, that would be wonderful. In any event, congratulations and well done. I learn poems by heart from a small black Moleskin book where such luminaries as Yeats, Larkin, Millay, Keats, Hughes, Sitwell, Lewis, Auden, Riddell,Carver, Lowell and Sutton live noisily together. The list has excluded WS and many others too. I have learned The House, Say, Embassy, Consider and Immigrants by heart and let me tell you the others do not consider you a Pretender. I enter the Lincoln Drama Festival each year and will feature one of your poems, probably Say, or possibly Immigrants in Spring 2015 all being well. A count up reveals five by Sutton, four by Larkin, three by Auden and just two by WS, among over 100 others. Your poem Consider is the favourite of my friend Nicholas Mee, a scientist and author, and not one to love poetry. Regards, Nigel Turner Thank you, Nigel, that is most gratifying. Everyone should have a small black moleskin book, or equivalent (mine before I went computerised was a set of Collins Ideal notebooks that I still treasure), and to my mind being thought worthy of inclusion in another s private anthology and learnt by heart is as good an accolade as a poet can receive. Good luck in the competition! Greatly enjoyed discovering your poems instead of going to sleep. My daughter who died two years ago set Chesterton s the two maidens to song and I wanted to read the words again and found them and lots more on your website. Thanks Dan has now solved a mystery for me by telling me that this poem by Chesterton that I came across once and could never find again is in the collection Queen of Seven Swords (1926). A facsimile of the whole collection can be viewed at http://www.scribd.com/doc/51356305/Queen-of-Seven-Swords-G-K-Chesterton#scribd Thanks Dan. I love David Sutton s poetry and have learned several by heart. I m always amazed how many of the poetry websites ignore his stuff. I have him up there with Larkin, who is also one of my favorites. Thanks Nigel, that s good to know. What can I say but spread the word, which I agree doesn t seem to have got very far! Hello

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