David Redfield

David Redfield is a poet, writer, mentor, performer and workshop leader. After graduating in English and Drama from King Alfred’s College, Winchester, David worked in the public sector for a number of years, including a career in Special Educational Needs. His published work includes Stretching Horizons (2002), Utter (2010) – both Hawthorn Press – and Sulla’s Cauldron, with Diane Griffiths, (Cratageus Press, 2014). His poetry has also appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and online journals incl. The Interpreter’s House, Ink Sweat & Tears, Iota, and still, and he has contributed articles and reviews to a number of publications. He was longlisted in the 2014 RSPB/Rialto Nature Competition. 

He spent three years as Deputy Chair of Poetry-next-the-Sea, an annual literature festival held in Wells, under the everyday guise of “David Radley”. He performed the title role in Meeting Mister Pepys (a performance piece devised by Caroline Gilfillan) at a number of literary festivals in 2013-14. A second, expanded edition of Utter (The Ennor Press) was launched at the Isles of Scilly Festival in May 2016.

From April – June 2020 he curated and edited two online community writing projects in order to reflect the experience of living under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis: in Fakenham (north Norfolk, where he lives) & The Isles of Scilly – both entitled “The Lockdown Spring Renga Project”. The poems were subsequently published in two strictly limited editions as “Every Line Tells”. 

Video settings of both complete poems can be viewed through YouTube: 

The Lockdown Spring Renga Project – in Fakenham, ed. by David Redfield www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTZ7rMWY0Kw 

The Lockdown Spring Renga Project – in Scilly, ed. by David Redfield www.youtube.com/watch?v=REz08Y2Qa-g

David is a member of East Anglian Writers (affiliated to the Society of Authors). He is co-founder of the Fakenham-based Chalk River Poets group: their first publication, “Binding the Stones” was published in May 2024. 

David is also a digital-image maker whose work has been exhibited. 

View examples of David’s work and further information at

www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidredfield

Contact:
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01328 853905
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