The poet and novelist David Cameron was born in Glasgow and now lives near Belfast.
In 2014 he received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. His poems are collected in The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988–2016, Korean Letters and Red Dress. Several of his poems have been set to music by the composer David Jaeger.
Cameron is the author of four books of fiction: Rousseau Moon (2000), The Ghost of Alice Fields (2014), Prendergast’s Fall (2019) and Femke (2023).
He has also written a critical study, Samuel Beckett: The Middle and Later Years, and edited The Poems of Martin Seymour-Smith.
“transmutes the base matter of common experience into something like gold”Robert Nye
“provides an answer to Frost’s wish for poems about subjects common in experience but rare in books”Seamus Heaney