Homecoming

David taught on VSO in Sri Lanka between studies at Cambridge and Oxford. He then taught in a variety of settings and also worked for four years with homeless people in London before finding his way to 20 years’ work as a Class Teacher in Steiner education. Wynstones Press published his first poetry collection for children in 2009, followed by another in 2014. More poetry (for adults) followed: ‘A Treasury of Trees’ (2017), ‘A Treasury of Plants’ (2020) and in 2022 a poetic sequence celebrating ‘The Twelve Senses’. Other recent publications include ‘Common Wealth’, a panoramic sequence of poems spanning prehistoric times to the present (Matador, 2020). Most recently, (2022) Austin Macauley brought together in one book three privately printed collections recording living through the seasons in rural Dorset and Herefordshire. (‘A Season’s Treasury’)David grew up in Painswick and his latest title ‘A Painswick Panorama” (Ex-Libris Press 2022) is a sustained poetic celebration sub-titled ‘Glimpses into the History of a Cotswold Village’ Other collections in preparation include a life of Kaspar Hauser and the final sequence in his ‘treasury’ series: ‘A Treasury of Earth: from Rocks to Crystals’. David has two grown-up sons and lives with his wife in the hilltop village of Orcop overlooking the Black Mountains.

• Origins; Elements; Making; Messages and Warnings; War; Pilgrimage; Times and Places; Notes and Acknowledgements