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David Turner | Gender
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October 22 | Age
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Married with two grown up children, a lifelong poet, a student of English literature, an avid croquet player and, unlike Hamlet, interested in all the uses of this world. Born in Romford Essex 22/10/48, and brought up in Dagenham Essex, a suburb of East London. Went to Exeter University, met my wife Mavis,. Had a good time, made some good friends who I still see.
I decided to become a Primary School teacher, After 20 years I gave up teaching and went back to University to do an MSc in Software engineering, Then I went back to University again to do a PhD in computing. I got a job at Sun Microsystems working on fault tolerant computers and network switches.
In 2004 Sun Microsystems offered me compulsory early retirement so I took it. I am now a happy Internet poet and Literature Student at the Centre for Lifelong Learning in Newcastle:-
http://education.sunderland.ac.uk/
I I have recently become the poetry editor of Gold Dust Magazine, a poetry impressario, organising Poetry Performance events in London, Leeds and Newcastle Upon Tyne's Theatre Royal.
Let the World Wag
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| Poems: 497 total (13 with awards). View By: Date | Title | Award |
| Memorial Service (4) | Through the Chilli Studio Window Sadly (1) | I Sing a Song of Lamentation (1) |
| Lover's Lips (2) | Love Weeping (1) | Anaphora (2) |
| Your Wings (4) | City of Sin (1) | Newcastle and Gateshead Art Studio - NAGAS (1) |
| January (2) | Yule Fire (3) | The Sky is on Fire (5) |
| Christmas Star December 2013 (2) | Cry Africa For Nelson Mandela (4) | Every Third Thought - parts IV and V (0) |
| Eleventh Hour (3) | Every Third Thought (3) | The Winter Time is Coming (3) |
| For Jane Austen (4) | Newcastle Eye Clinic (2) | Bending with the Wind (4) |
| Harvest (1) | In Memoriam Seamus Heanet (2) | The Dark is Rising (2) |
| Gilded World (7) | The Tidal Tyne (5) | A Walking Head (5) |
Good News Boys  (6) | Subterranean Death-Wish Blues (7) | CROWN (4) |
| Inside (2) | Blue EWednesday (4) | A Rare Day (5) |
| Scrooge Christmas (0) | Happy New Age 2012 12 21 11:12 (1) | Roller Coaster (1) |
| Aubade - for B (0) | Thanksgiving (1) | For B (4) |
| St Georges Plateau, 11am November 11th 2012 (1) | All Hallows Eve (1) | Dangerous Lines (1) |
| The Sixties (6) | THE NERDS RULE OK!!! (2) | On Seeing the Holocaust Memorial in Rhodes Old Town (4) |
| Indian Summer (4) | To the Right Lady (5) | Goodbye (6) |
| The Autumn End of August (2) | Evening at Monkseaton (3) | Pheidippides (1) |
| Concerto for Voices and Two choirs (2) | For Brån (4) | Advent (1) |
| Advent (1) | A Dark July Evening (6) | The Cat's Away (3) |
| Poesy Lupus Luna (3) | Late Arrival (3) | DNA (6) |
| Pointless (4) | Dust, Dust, Nothing but Dust (5) | The Immortals of Pompei (4) |
| The Isle of Capri (3) | Come with me down to the Bay of Naples (1) | Lilac Socks (4) |
| Ripples (3) | Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité (2) | Sapho (2) |
| Rushing Away (2) | Rushing Away (0) | September 11 2001 (1) |
| Sir David De Dagenham and Lady Macardy (1) | Breath of Autumn's Being (2) | Streams (1) |
| I Love You (3) | A Drawing Down of Blinds (4) | Belsay Trees (4) |
| Harvest Moon (0) | A Turning World (2) | Belsay Hall Croquet Club (1) |
| One Day (4) | Final Edition (1) | One Day (2) |
| Swift Summer 12th May 2011 (2) | Blue and Gold : 22nd May 2011 (4) | A Right Royal Wedding, 29th April (5) |
| The Story Of a Belly (3) | Þe Þrescwald (2) | If All the World Were Made of Cheese (4) |
| The Elephant (1) | Sonnet to Kathleen Kenny (1) | The Office Garden (3) |
| A Long Future (2) | A Ring (7) | Where do we live? (4) |
| Red Rising Moon (4) | Crab's Diary - Part 5 (2) | Crab's Diary 5th Dog Day, Year of the Shepherd Dog, Dog Life 190 (1) |
| Crab's Diary - Part 3 (1) | Vision on the Road to Newcastle (5) | Love's a hard, cruel game (7) |
| Crab's Diary 2nd Dog Day, Year of the Shepherd, Dog Life 190 (1) | Crab's Diary - DogDay 1 (1) | A Dog's Life (1) |
| Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse 21st December 2010 (2) | A Piece of Work (3) | Letter from a Turner to a turner (3) |
| Fond Foolish Old Man (4) | Merry Mid-Winter (2) | I Like Words (3) |
| Fuck 'Em All (4) | Morning Star (5) | Ten Little Angels (3) |
| Kicking People When They Are Down (4) | I Want You (2) | Echidna (1) |
| Burial Right? (4) | Economic Theory (3) | The Bastards (3) |
| Melting Hearts (3) | A Grey Day (6) | The Great Generation (2) |
| For Aunt Mary, 1925-2010 (8) | Things (4) | Silence of the Supermarkets (2) |
I Loved You - to the tune of Danny Boy  (3) | The Last Roses of Summer (5) | We Will Remember Them (4) |
| Odysseus and Peisinoe - Jointly Authored with She Whispers (4) | No Man's Land (2) | Let It Come (2) |
| So Fair Thee Weel (2) | Bonefires (4) | The Crow Road -for Gene's Wordbank Challenge (2) |
| Hills and Heather (2) | The End of New Triangulum (2) | Whisky Chasers (2) |
| Four Seasons (3) | Tonight (4) | Sexless Love (5) |
| A Game of Chess (3) | Clichéd Love (6) | The Deep Sargasso Sea (3) |
| Turkish History (1) | Dancing Below Jove (2) | Sailing with Odysseus (2) |
| Words, Words, Words (3) | She Loves me, She loves me not (2) | Underworld (3) |
| Returning to San Fransisco (3) | Tis Better to have Loved and Lost? (2) | Hade's Halls (2) |
| Soul Sunset (3) | August 12th 2010 (2) | Queen of Puddings (4) |
| The Clod and the Pebble (5) | Holy Feet (5) | Poetry is the Retreat of Old Men (4) |
| A Letter from Hell to Heaven (5) | A Square Inch of Skin (6) | To a Beautiful Dame (3) |
| Old Friends (3) | Too Much Joy (2) | Photograhic Memory (4) |
| New Triangulum (3) | Maya - Where all is Illusion and Only One Thing can be Known (3) | Their Families have been Informed (2) |
| Incarnadine the Green Sea (3) | Three Constellations (2) | The End of the Affair - 1st July 2010 (4) |
| To Wilfie (3) | At the End of Cemetary Road Earby, Yorkshire (2) | Where Angels Fear to Tread (6) |
| Eternal Grief (5) | Reflections on High Rise Living (2) | Pendle Avanced Croquet Tournament - In Memory of John Beech (0) |
| Everyone's England - A riposte to 'England, My England' - see below (4) | Ghosts (6) | The Elements (4) |
| Toad Watching (2) | The Dark is Rising (5) | GodRest Ye Merry Bankermen (6) |
| Three Stone Figures (3) | Christmas Eve Mass (4) | The Ballad of Mr Pernickety and Mis Prim - Part VII (2) |
| Mr Boudicca (2) | Mr Tambourine Man (6) | The Musicians Next Door (2) |
| Chagall, Angels and Music (4) | White Horses (3) | Middleton in Teesdale to High Force (6) |
| Post Cards from Autumn (6) | Mask (4) | La Dame De La Maison (5) |
| Ce N'est Pas Vrai (6) | The Country of the Poor (9) | Autumn on the Clock Lawn (7) |
| Sonnets Explained (8) | Cornwall (3) | English Weather (4) |
| The Ballad Of Mr Pernickety and Pretty Miss Prim Part V (4) | The Ballad Of Mr Pernickrty and Pretty Miss Prim: Part III (2) | The Ballad Of Mr Pernickety and Pretty Miss Prim (3) |
| Morfa Bychan (4) | A Double Century of Dead (3) | Farewell Harry Patch (4) |
| Gargoyle Gurner (5) | Plainsong of the Library Lifts (3) | Mid Summer Dusk (4) |
| Houseness (4) | Housing Estate Swifts (3) | Football Hole (4) |
| The Elements (4) | The Ghost Road (7) | Misanthropic Moon (8) |
| My Black Dog (9) | Faerie Night (4) | Day and Night (3) |
| One Hand Clapping (6) | Lungfish (6) | Dark Days (3) |
| Sea Level Rising with Figure in Fig Leaf (2) | Still Life With Grandchild (6) | Archaeopteryx (4) |
| Spring 2009 (5) | Those I wish I'd Kissed (6) | Holiday Blues (5) |
| Inauguration January 20th 2009 (4) | Painting the World Anew (3) | Elgar Cello Concerto No. 1 (8) |
| An Awful World (5) | The Christmas Story (5) | On the Death of Child (7) |
| Layers (3) | In Time of the Waiting for Work (3) | From Troy 12,000 BC to Sarajevo 1993 AD (4) |
| Sensitive teeth (5) | Breakfast in the Garden (2) | Anonymous (3) |
| Sentinel (1) | I Owe Asclepius a Cock * See note (6) | Point of Departure (3) |
| Pigeons in George Square Glasgow (5) | Better Once Than Never (7) | Empty Echoes (6) |
| An Historic Day - 5th November 2008 (4) | Discarded Summer (5) | Age of Aquarius (6) |
| Tomorrow (5) | Today! (7) | A Ballad to my Love (6) |
| Batting an Eyelid (5) | Sixtieth Eve (8) | Sea and Moor and Sky (4) |
| Self Portrait in Mirror - with cups (3) | England's Mountains Green (10) | To Tricia (12) |
| The House Where I was born. (5) | A Windy Day (4) | Prado (5) |
| Blood Harvest (4) | To a lovely Lady (8) | Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam (7) |
| La Rambla (6) | Arc De Triomphe (10) | When I'm Sixty Four (6) |
| And Each Slow Dusk a Drawing down of Blinds (14) | Sandalwood Pyre (3) | More Haste Less Speed (4) |
| David's Dog by Crab (4) | Cat on Lap (6) | Ducking and Diving (2) |
| Love Weeping (11) | A Marshy Day (3) | Landscape of the Future (4) |
| The Official Version of the Creation of Adam (6) | No Sodding State Fucking Funeral For the Wicked Witch of the West! (3) | Loving Your ABC (9) |
| Weeping for Jane (6) | Sunflower Field (4) | Sunflowers (5) |
| Lammas Eve - July 31st 2008 (3) | Into The Misty Mountains (4) | To Val (3) |
| Late Flowers (5) | The Isles Of Greece (5) | Summer Triangle (7) |
| For Richard (6) | Bowden Croquet Club In May (2) | Take me to the Vets and put me down! (5) |
| The Glory of England (7) | The Clock Lawn (9) | A Sonnet to my Mistress' Eyebrows (8) |
| Shoreham Harbour (3) | I Pity the Poor Soldier (5) | Swift Arrival (2) |
| On the Isle of Sycorax (3) | Air Traffic (5) | The Soldier (3) |
| Ravensworth Arms - Lamesly, County Durham, North East England (6) | Orion the Hunter (5) | Reading Between the Lines (5) |
| In My Youth Revisited (3) | Four Seasons and Four Ages (3) | Through a Window Gladly (4) |
| For a Friend Far Away (5) | Rear View Mirror (4) | Queynte (3) |
| Chariots of Fire (8) | Sunset at Lemington on Tyne (4) | Gaia (2) |
| To Betty (4) | A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Plastic Bullet of a Child in Bethlehem (5) | At a Bus Stop in Croft Street, Newcastle (2) |
| Time Travelling - August 1988 (1) | Condemned (3) | Bridge Over Blackened Water (6) |
| Africa (9) | This is the Way the World Ends (6) | For a Wolf Caught in the Storm (6) |
| To A Sister of Mercy (3) | These I have Loved (4) | Sunflower Power (4) |
| Sand and Pebbles (3) | Bonefire* of the Inanities (3) | The Holly and the Ivy (1) |
| Holly and the Ivy (3) | Himalayan Cumuli (4) | Size the Day - by Gaia (4) |
| Sinking in an English Swamp (4) | Cape Cod (12) | On Reading the Letters of a Dead Sailor (4) |
| The Gods' Kaleidoscope (6) | King Daivid Cums Dedicated to She Whispers! (4) | Pigs On The Wing - 8th June 2007 - With acknowledgement to Roger Waters for the Title (4) |
| A Journey by Car from Newcastle to London (10) | Storm in a Teacup (4) | Land of the Midnight Twilight - 21st June 2007 (2) |
| Woman In Love (4) | The Summer is Going (6) | Emotionally Damaged (4) |
| The Year's End (1) | Venus and Saturn (5) | Spring on the M62, M1, A1M (1) |
| The Sea Frets (1) | Weeping For London (4) | District Line – East London (0) |
| Titanic April 2007 (2) | Fiddling While Rome Burns (2) | Pendle and Craven Croquet Club, Cemetary Road, Earby (1) |
| The Crab Seekers (1) | The Crab Seekers - illustrated (0) | Columbia One (2) |
| A Blank Page (3) | Stone Bridge (2) | Knowing Nothing (1) |
| Lunar Eclipse (3) | Streets of London (3) | Early Train (4) |
| Turning Off The Lights February 1st 2007 (6) | The Deep Quiet (2) | The Sunflower (5) |
| My Class (3) | I'll say a Prophecy Before I Go (7) | Winter Robin Song (2) |
| A Dignified Death (15) | For the Sake of a Chad (2) | A Windy May (3) |
| To Jolen and James (5) | Blackbird Solstice - 22nd December 2006 (3) | I Sing a Song of Lamentation (12) |
| Dreary December Days (3) | Absence and Carly (1) | Pinochet is Dead!! 10th December 2006 -YES!! (1) |
| A Road from Here to There (2) | Moonbow (11) | From: "William Shakespeare" (3) |
| Dance, Dance (2) | Wild Roaring (2) | In Time of Waiting for Work (3) |
| I Am (3) | Are we the Weak Ones? (7) | Giving Thanks (3) |
| Leonid - 19th November 2006 (5) | Newcastle Evening (3) | Regretting (3) |
| Seal Souls (2) | I Once Forked a Poet (6) | September 11 2001 (1) |
| Morning in Crawcrook (1) | Slum Spring (2) | Many Mornings (1) |
| Words (2) | The Leech Gatherer Lives (1) | To Stormwolf (3) |
| Old Friends in the Ardenne (4) | Another Long Night (2) | Meagre Words (7) |
| You are Old Father David (5) | Rolling up Summer (6) | The Northern Masterbaker (3) |
| For James Robson 1977-2006 (3) | Middling May (2) | The Rockery Mice (1) |
| Bus Stop (5) | Carlisle Train (2) | Spring - A Year Later (3) |
| Winterland of Wonder (3) | Three Haikus (2) | In the Next Room (5) |
| Autumn – A Year Later (5) | Autumn (8) | Hoopern Valley (2) |
| The Fool (2) | Parting (6) | To Brian (5) |
| The Guardians (3) | The Crab Seekers (2) | Freedom (3) |
| Now I'm Sixty Four (12) | Scattered Laughter (5) | Spring (6) |
| March Snow (4) | Devon Sunset (3) | Ashes (5) |
| Rain (5) | Anthem for a Doomed Youth (3) | Who am I? (1) |
| The Lord of Beetroot (5) | Now it is Spring. (2) | Noah's Sons at Peterborough Station (2) |
| Another Walk with Crab the Dog (4) | Ryton Holy Cross Churchyard (1) | The Original Masons (4) |
| A Century of Dead (3) | Lover's Lips (6) | Roosting Rooks (5) |
| Streams (13) | The Dunnock (3) | Cathedral of Reconciliation (8) |
| Thoughts Considered Unsuitable for an Essay upon Education (6) | School Christmas (1) | Wind in the Trees (3) |
| Christmas Myths (4) | Christmas Eve (1) | December Blackbirds (3) |
| Christmas Constellations (0) | Christmases Like Snow (2) | Summer in Birks (2) |
| Staying Up All Night (3) | Christmas among the Turkeys (2) | A Rant (2) |
| Going the Wrong Way (2) | Thoughts Beneath London (1) | Where the Wind Goes (3) |
| Seal Souls (3) | Late Night (2) | In My Youth (2) |
| Your Lives are so much Crap (3) | Unconcerned (1) | Each Man is Alone (3) |
| Truth? (5) | Genesis (2) | A Warning to my Fellow Poets (2) |
| Orion (8) | So long and thanks for all the fish (6) | Falling in love's a disease, (7) |
| The Shattered Tree (3) | The Isles Of Greece (1) | Virtual Lover on the Internet (3) |
| The Old Crone (2) | Old Age and New Born (4) | Big Eraser (2) |
| All Hallows Eve (0) | Burn Out (3) | KickOff 01 (1) |
| To Shauna (3) | In The Steps Of Stout Cortez (1) | Trafalgar Day (3) |
| A Soldiers Duty (2) | D-Day 2004 (3) | Angel of the North (11) |
| Mooning across the World (3) | The Ballad of Sir David and Dragonwyck (3) | Through a Window Gladly (4) |
| Unmemories of my Father (2) | The Photo (7) | Autumnal Showers (5) |
| There Was A Boy (5) | Christening Day (4) | Treasure (1) |
| Field of Freedom (3) | Post Election Blues - 3rd November 2004 (3) | Bethlehem 2002 (8) |
| The Dubyaemdees (4) | Saturday October 28th 1962 (7) | |
