David Bateman is a people-friendly performance poet with a knack for getting silly and serious at the same time. He was winner of the Edinburgh Performance Poetry Competition 1990, and nominated as Best New Writing Talent in the Liverpool Echo Arts & Entertainment Awards 1996. He is a tutor in Poetry and Creative Writing for Liverpool University at the Centre for Continuing Education, and on several other Adult Education programmes.

Titles by David Bateman

A Homage to Me

Dancing snakes, singing fish, erotic aardvarks and an unusual fruit display are just some of the many experiences shared in David Bateman’s fourth collection of poetry. Bateman has been described by Mersey Radio’s Pete McGovern as ‘A marvellous poet’ His previous collections are The Ideal God Comapnion, From Jelly Beans to Reprobation and Curse of the Killer Hedge.

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Details

• ISBN 1 904420 06 0
• Publisher Driftwood
• Genre Poetry
• Extent 32pp