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Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction

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    Under one’s feet, David, coal offers a broad spectrum of social history. The Duke of Bridgewater i...
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NOTICE – I, DAVID JOHN BERNARD SELZER, hereby assert and give notice of my right under section 77 of the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of all works presented within this website – except all those in the Between Rivers and Other People’s Flowers categories, and most of those in the Found in Translation category.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – Some of the poems on the website have appeared, in one form or another, in the following: A Jar Of Sticklebacks, Anglo-Welsh Review, Exterminating Angel Press, Jabberwocky, Life Lines, Peterloo Anthology, Poetry in the Seventies, Poetry Matters, Poetry Merseyside, Meridian, Still Life, The Honest Ulsterman, The Times Literary Supplement and Worktown Words. Some have been broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside. HERRINGS was performed at Action Transport Theatre in 2005.

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