Description: David Cameron received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry in 2014. His collection The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988–2016 is published by Rún Press.
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David Cameron is a poet and novelist. In 2014 he received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. His poems are collected in The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988–2016 and Korean Letters .
David is the author of three books of fiction. The first two, Rousseau Moon (2000) and The Ghost of Alice Fields (2014) , were chosen among the Books of the Year in the UK press. His experimental novel, Prendergast’s Fall (2019) , was described by reviewer Alistair Braidwood as ‘one of the most inventive and interesting novels of recent times’. David has also written a critical study, Samuel Beckett: The Middle and Later Years , and edited The Poems of Martin Seymour-Smith .