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This builds on his background as a steadfast organiser, devoting energy to Torriano’s weekly open mic, and to the board and editing work for Magma poetry magazine. One of the few exceptions from the opus of contemporary commentary, being the devastating suckerpunch of Execution, a poem you wish would just be ‘of its time’, but is instead a sickening window from 2008 into our present reality: “a theme that never goes away”. There are few topics that David veers away from, no subject unearthed, from the manosphere to home-turf protectionism, from the climate catastrophe to that other universal tragedy of the stubbed toe. From the death of the high street, to the simple delights of grilled cheese. Is it ever just about the halloumi? Befitting his dual badges of local news media legend and poet of the absurd, David’s discerning gaze shows his deep curiosity for how things are, and his interest in drawing connections, noting that many of our commentators either can’t, or refuse to see the world in all its layers. Richard Dawkins in the curry house (Oxford) speaks to the more benevolent and benign in UK religious culture, a nuance that is often lost in this, and similar debates. Here, religion is less a tool of mass control, and more a quietly deteriorating necessity of community and goodwill, propped up by an increasingly elderly constellation of parishes. Without deflecting from systemic failures, David simply presents, without judgment, what is disintegrating around us, offering the reader his “poem as a toy” to create their own conclusion. Across the span of a collection, these sharp eyes accumulate a body of work that speaks to a world that I’ve come to think of as ‘David’s England’. His nostalgic, witty and excoriating take on the best, worst, and the plainly mundane of English, and British, identity, lands as bittersweet in a world with right-wing populism fogging the windscreen. “As with any country, there will be things you love, and things you don’t love–”. 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