David Ashbee is a retired English teacher. He has been writing poems seriously for over 40 years. He won a SouthWest Arts Award in 1985, was shortlisted in the BBC/Sunday Times Poetry Competition in 1978.
His first collection “Perpetual Waterfalls” came from Enitharmon in 1989. “Open Day at Stancombe Park” was selected for The Oxford Book of Garden Verse, and a selection of his poems appeared alongside work by Roger McGough and Irina Rutushinskaya in “Cambridge Poets 2”. His second full collection, “Loss Adjuster”, was published by bluechrome in 2007.
He has run HOLUB, a Gloucestershire Poetry and Music group, for over 30 years, and is a founder-member of The Cherington Poets who have held monthly workshops regularly since 1990.
An experienced performer of his work, he is available to organisers of literary festivals and workshops.
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