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1940 -
David Hart has written the following brief biographical profile for the Literary Heritage West Midlands website:
David Hart was born and grew up in Aberystwyth, where he sang in St Michael's Church choir, and has lived in Birmingham most his life. Sometime Anglican curate in Highgate, London, then Birmingham University chaplain; subsequently Birmingham Post drama critic, then arts administrator (West Midlands Arts/Arts Council), now lives as a poet, with recent part-time poetry teaching posts at Warwick and Birmingham Universities.
Poetry residencies include South Birmingham Mental Health, Heartlands Hospital, Bronglais Hospital (Aberystwyth), poetry festivals and Worcester Cathedral. Commissions include Royal Mail, Symphony Hall, Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Sean Henry (sculptor), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (poems in response to Rouault's Miserere); poems in response to paintings by Marilyn Johns exhibited with her paintings in Shropshire and Italy; Mappa Mundi libretto - Song of the mapmaker (music David Ventura) performed in Hereford Cathedral; Birmingham Poet Laureate 1997 to 1998.
As well as other prizes has won the Irish National and First and Second prizes in the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition. Recent work includes words for a musical composition by Liz Johnson, Breeze fingers, and Liz is working on his Crag Inspector. Poems widely published in magazines and anthologies. Books of poetry include Setting the poem to words, Crag Inspector (a poem of Bardsey Island), Work, the work (a poem of Beethoven), and Running out (Five Seasons Press 2006), which includes much of the work from the above residencies. Latest poem booklet (2009, Nine Arches Press), The Titanic Café closes its doors. At the time of writing (2008) he has dropped out of most work 'out there' to concentrate on finding his own visual and written work - poems and short prose fiction.
The following works are available in the West Midlands Creative Literature Collection:-
Poetry listing 1 (1988)
Poetry listing 2 (1988)
Poetry listing 3 (1988)
Poetry listing 5 (1988)
David Hart has a website with links including his poetry elsewhere at http://davidhartbirminghampoet.blogspot.com/
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updated 22 January 2010
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