David won the Ginkgo AONB Prize in 2023 for Best Poem of the British Landscape. His poetry has been long-listed in the National Poetry Competition, twice shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and won first prize and a special mention in the Sentinel Quarterly Literary Review. 

In 2020 he was commended in the Poetry Society’s annual Stanza Competition his work has been published in several anthologies, in magazines, in film and, in 2019 one of his poems featured on television as part of a garden design project featured on Channel Five’s The Great Gardening Challenge.

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David's books are: 

• An Essex Parish (2015)

• The Celestial Spheres (2020) both available from Camuluspoetry.co.uk, and 

• Jim-Jam-Julie (2021) available from olympiapublishers.com.

David writes on a range of subjects and his second collection, the Celestial Spheres, published in 2020, includes themes ranging between ambition, constancy, love, war and spirituality, but the central theme relates to how we are often moved or influenced by forces and people unknown and unseen.  

Individual poems talk about migration, identity, masculinity and the long term effects of conflict.  

David is also known for his poetry about climbing and mountaineering; he served on the judging panel of the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature in 2020 and 2021.  He lived for a long time in Essex, but now lives in rural Lancashire.