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David Selzer

Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction

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Recent Posts

  • WAITING FOR LEVIATHAN October 28, 2026
  • THE DEAD AMONG US October 28, 2026
  • WILDFIRE October 28, 2026
  • CITY OF AWESOME NIGHT, CITY OF PERPETUAL LIGHT October 28, 2026
  • MURMURATIONS October 28, 2026
  • THE SUGARCANE FIELD October 28, 2026
  • 9/11 October 28, 2026
  • OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: THE POETRY OF FARZAN RADFAR October 15, 2026
  • AUTUMN RISING September 24, 2026
  • A COLD LIE September 24, 2026
  • THE UMBRELLA AND THE MALLET September 24, 2026
  • FOUND IN TRANSLATION: HAFEZ OF SHIRAZ – HASSAN SHABANI & FARZAN RADFAR September 10, 2026
  • A PARTIAL ECLIPSE August 27, 2026
  • CLIFF TOP ENCOUNTER August 27, 2026
  • ON PARYS MOUNTAIN August 27, 2026

Catalogue of Works

'A JAR OF STICKLEBACKS' - ARMADILLO CENTRAL1
'AMONG THE MUSES': HI-HAT PRESS NEW YORK1
'ELSEWHERE': 1973-20234
BETWEEN RIVERS19
FICTION1
FOUND IN TRANSLATION5
OTHER PEOPLE'S FLOWERS23
POETRY1035
POETRY VOICE OVERS1
SCREENPLAYS2
STAGE PLAYS2
THEMES2

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Latest Comments

  • CITY OF AWESOME NIGHT, CITY OF PERPETUAL LIGHT
    Alex Cox | October 29, 2026 8:19 pm
    Another ace. You are on a poetic roll!
  • 9/11
    Alex Cox | October 29, 2026 8:14 pm
    Intense! Well done.
  • WAITING FOR LEVIATHAN
    Gerald Kelly | October 29, 2026 3:33 pm
    As ever, David, your intense and powerful ending resonates back through the poem!
  • OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: THE POETRY OF FARZAN RADFAR
    Farzan Radfar | October 26, 2026 2:16 pm
    Hello, Jeff. Thank you so much for taking the time reading my poems and your kind comments on 'Wi...
  • OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: THE POETRY OF FARZAN RADFAR
    Jeff Teasdale | October 25, 2026 8:18 pm
    Thank you, Farzan, for these sensitive and insightful thoughts. I could respond to many of your...

Copyright

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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