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David Chorlton [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Phoenix, AZ
Arizona US
Email: 
DavidChorlton@centurylink.net
Bio: 

I live with a European past, replete with memories of art galleries plus a love of music, and a present rooted on the Southwest desert. Most of my learning has come from reading across a broad spectrum of poetry, and my writing has edged a little more toward the natural world as "nature poetry" no longer has the reassuring and bucolic implications it had when I was at school. Readings are always a special events for me, and I'd go so far as saying that a poem read aloud is in its final draft.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
German
Favorite authors: 
Eugenio Montale, Tomas Transtromer, W. S. Merwin, Stephen Stepanchev, Charles Wright, Jack Marshall
Born in: 
Spittal-An-Der-Drau
Austria
Raised in: 
Manchester
United Kingdom
Website: 
https://davidchorlton.mysite.com [2]
Prizes won: 

The Slipstream Chapbook Award (2009) for The Age of Miracles The Ronald Wardall Prize from Rain Mountain Press (2008) for the chapbook manuscript, The Lost River

What I'm reading now: 
Spiral Trace by Jack Marshall
The Secret Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
The World of the Ten Thousand Things by Charles Wright
Identifies as: 
European American
Prefers to work with: 
Naturalists/Environmentalists

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/david_chorlton [2] https://davidchorlton.mysite.com