The Writers of Wales Database

WOOLLEY, DAVID

01792 463980/561369
Website: david.woolley@swansea.gov.uk

Poet, performer, writer, tutor, broadcaster and arts consultant. David was born in Plymouth in 1958 and is a freelance arts consultant. He is the first chair of the National Association for Literature Development, and ran the arts programmes at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea for the past 12 years. As a part of this work he directed the annual Dylan Thomas Festival and was recently commissioned to prepare a concept document for a proposed Ted Hughes Centre in the poet’s birthplace in Yorkshire. David has published four collections of poetry.

Reviews:
With respect to Written on our Hands (Headland Publications, 2006)

"…What a delight it is. I love the lightness and clarity of your poems…"
Tess Gallagher

"...I like it. The slippery current of the syntax in 'Lindisfarne', the pattern of the 'Magic Carpet', the bolt of rainbow in 'From This', the final slippage just held back in the ironic grip of the rhyme in 'Losing the Edge'...For once the blurb is right..." 
Maurice Scully


Selected Publications:
Cold (Headland Publications, 1989)
Falling from a Wall (Headlock Publications, 1994)
Written on our Hands (Headland Publications, 2006)
Pursued by a Bear (Headland Publications, 2010)