About The Author
David started writing poems at an early age. These poems were discovered in an unbound loose leaf binder, written in his late teens and early twenties. Back then, there was a graduation to songwriting, as an expression, poems set to music, and now sung in performance. And so these poems were forgotten, and lay in the binder on the shelf. David recalls a Grade 5 teacher, Mrs Jackson, who had students memorize and recite at the front of the class, a 16 line poem, in the first term. Next up was a 32 line poem, mid-term and finally, a 64 line poem, committed to memory and recited at the front of the class, near the end of the school year. Who knows if that's where it started. Further along, in Grade 10, an English home room teacher named Fraser McKen, saw some of David's poems, asked for more, and was very encouraging in David keeping at it. A debt of gratitude is owed to both teachers. And now, they're in your hands and read by you.
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