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David Selzer

Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction

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Recent Posts

  • OTHER PEOPLES’ FLOWERS: ‘MEANDERING THROUGH MAZES: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ON IDENTITY’ – CATHERINE REYNOLDS July 16, 2026
  • ‘AMONG THE MUSES A Year of Poetry’: Hi-Hat Press NEW YORK June 25, 2026
  • CHANCE INTIMATIONS June 11, 2026
  • A SOUVENIR June 11, 2026
  • A TOUCH OF SPRING June 11, 2026
  • THE COOTS’ NEST June 11, 2026
  • ABSENCES June 11, 2026
  • SAND BUILDERS June 11, 2026
  • THE FIELD June 11, 2026
  • TRAVELLERS June 11, 2026
  • SICKLES June 11, 2026
  • THE PATHWAY June 11, 2026
  • DEPRAVED HEARTS: IMPERIAL PATHOLOGIES May 28, 2026
  • REFLECTIONS ON IGNOMINY May 28, 2026
  • AFTER THE TEMPEST: CALIBAN’S STORY May 28, 2026

Catalogue of Works

'A JAR OF STICKLEBACKS' - ARMADILLO CENTRAL1
'AMONG THE MUSES': HI-HAT PRESS NEW YORK1
'ELSEWHERE': 1973-20234
BETWEEN RIVERS18
FICTION1
FOUND IN TRANSLATION4
OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS22
POETRY1015
POETRY VOICE OVERS1
SCREENPLAYS2
STAGE PLAYS2
THEMES2

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  • OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS: 'MEANDERING THROUGH MAZES: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ON IDENTITY' - CATHERINE REYNOLDS
    Catherine Reynolds | July 17, 2026 7:15 pm
    Thank you, Paul, for your articulate and meaningful comment. We shared some good times together duri...
  • OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS: 'MEANDERING THROUGH MAZES: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ON IDENTITY' - CATHERINE REYNOLDS
    Catherine Reynolds | July 17, 2026 7:03 pm
    Thank you, Sylvia, for making these observational and analytical comments that help to acknowledge t...
  • OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS: 'MEANDERING THROUGH MAZES: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ON IDENTITY' - CATHERINE REYNOLDS
    Sylvia Selzer | July 17, 2026 6:05 pm
    'Ragged edges' it is not, Catherine. Scholarly and reflective. I love the form - prose, poetry, phot...
  • OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS: 'MEANDERING THROUGH MAZES: A PERSONAL NARRATIVE ON IDENTITY' - CATHERINE REYNOLDS
    Paul Amann | July 17, 2026 1:28 pm
    Beautiful poetry aligning against a remarkable range of biographical sequences. Fortunate to know th...
  • NO SURRENDER
    Mary Clark | July 14, 2026 12:47 am
    Hopefully, most of the attendees took their pride home with them and never heard the 'hollow noise o...

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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, AMONG THE MUSES A Year of Poetry, 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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