DAVID KEYWORTH
David was born in West Bromwich but grew up in North Lincolnshire. His first published poem was on a beer mat.
Since then, David has been published in The SHOp, Smiths Knoll, Orbis, South Bank Poetry and in 2012 won the poetry category in Salford University’s WriteNorthWest competition. In 2013, at the Northern Writers’Awards, David was awarded a New Poets Bursary to participate in a development programme produced by The Poetry School and led by poet Clare Pollard. In 2018 David completed an MA in Creative Writing from the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). His poem The Twilight Shift was published in the anthology Poems for Grenfell Tower by Onslaught Press, 2018 David writes for the website Weekend Notes https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/profile/212149/ David's poetry has been included in previous anthologies including: Skein (2014), Mill (2015) Published by Templar Poetry |
THE TWILIGHT SHIFT by David Keyworth The poems in this short collection are centred on aloneness and on the relationship between environment and the Human Condition. “Homelessness – literal and metaphorical – haunts the streets of David Keyworth’s atmospheric collection. In these concise, finely judged poems we meet characters cut adrift from their own lives – like the lost soul of ‘No More Departures’ waiting at the station for a future that never arrives. Keyworth is particularly effective at capturing those momentary interactions which make up so much of contemporary life – and which can make ghosts of us all. Highly recommended.”
- Esther Morgan, Award winning poet and author of 4 poetry collections |