David Cameron

Born in Glasgow in 1966, David Cameron received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry in 2014. His poetry is collected in The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988-2016 and in Korean Letters. Cameron is also the author of three books of fiction. The writer Ron Butlin has called Cameron ‘one of the most insightful and thought-provoking poets around’ (Sunday Herald, Books of the Year 2016).

Both the collection of stories Rousseau Moon and his later crime novella, The Ghost of Alice Fields, were chosen among the Books of the Year (2000 and 2014) in the Scottish press. Cameron has also edited a posthumous edition of Martin Seymour-Smith’s poems.

After some years in Amsterdam, Cameron moved with his wife, the glass artist Louise Rice, to Ireland, where they live with their three young children. Two new books appeared in 2019: the experimental novel Prendergast’s Fall (Into Books, Glasgow) and the critical study Samuel Beckett: The Middle and Later Years (Greenwich Exchange, London).

Cameron has been collaborating with the Toronto-based composer David Jaeger on musical settings of his poems.