Damian Walford Davies

Damian Walford Davies was born in Aberystwyth in 1971 and since 1997 has taught in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. A co-written collection of poems, Whiteout, appeared from Parthian in 2006, and his first full collection, Suit of Lights, was published by Seren in 2009.

Committed to a poetry of irony and subversive play, his work explores the darker side of the lyric.

He is currently completing a collection entitled Alabaster Girls, whose central sequence responds in pared-down notation to the moon landings of 1969–72.

In his dreams (and sometimes out of them), he aims to become the first poet in (virtual) residence on the moon.

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