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David Selzer

Writer of Poetry, Screen Plays, Stage Plays & Fiction

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Recent Posts

  • THE SPARROW HATH FOUND A HOUSE April 29, 2026
  • SAND FLATS AT WEST KIRBY April 29, 2026
  • THE CAVES AT TREMEIRCHION April 29, 2026
  • A GIFT April 29, 2026
  • STILL WATERS April 29, 2026
  • THEMES: THE RIVER DEE, CHESTER April 22, 2026
  • POETRY VOICEOVERS 1: ‘A SHORT HISTORY’ April 22, 2026
  • OTHER PEOPLE’S FLOWERS: LESLEY JOHNSON’S ‘THE SIEGE OF THE BASS ROCK’ – BRANWELL JOHNSON April 9, 2026
  • AFON CONWY March 26, 2026
  • BLACK DIAMONDS March 26, 2026
  • ETHEREAL March 26, 2026
  • FAMOUS FOR POEMS March 26, 2026
  • THE BANDSTAND March 26, 2026
  • FOUND IN TRANSLATION: FIVE POEMS BY EUGENIO MONTALE – CLIVE WATKINS March 12, 2026
  • FEBRUARY BURNING February 26, 2026

Catalogue of Works

'ELSEWHERE': 1973-20234
BETWEEN RIVERS17
FICTION1
FOUND IN TRANSLATION4
OTHER PEOPLES' FLOWERS21
POETRY1000
POETRY VOICEOVERS1
SCREENPLAYS2
STAGE PLAYS2
THEMES2

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Latest Comments

  • SAND FLATS AT WEST KIRBY
    Alex Cox | April 30, 2026 6:20 pm
    And in Meols, young Olaf S...
  • THE SPARROW HATH FOUND A HOUSE
    Kira Somach | April 30, 2026 11:46 am
    'If there were reincarnation I would wish to return as a sparrow in a five star hotel with Mediter...
  • THE SPARROW HATH FOUND A HOUSE
    Tony Clifford | April 30, 2026 10:06 am
    That just gets ‘it’. Elegant and subtle and completely unpretentious.
  • THEMES: THE RIVER DEE, CHESTER
    Jeff Teasdale | April 25, 2026 7:54 pm
    Thanks, David… just mere glances to most people, but behind the thinking eye of the poet? Gems.
  • SALMON LEAP
    Alex Cox | April 23, 2026 2:57 am
    Thanks for observing the stetson and the endangered eel. Life and art are all about the details. Lov...

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, 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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