David Scott (poet)

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David Scott
Born
David Victor Scott

(1947-01-13)13 January 1947
Cuddesdon College
Occupation(s)Priest, poet, playwright, writer

David Victor Scott (13 January 1947 โ€“ 21 October 2022[1]) was an English Anglican priest, poet, playwright and spiritual writer.

Scott was born in

Haberdashers' Aske's School. In 1980 he became vicar of Torpenhow and Allhallows in Cumbria. In 1991 he moved to Winchester to become rector of St Lawrence with St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate. He retired in September 2010 to Cumbria, where he died in Kendal
.

Scott was an honorary canon of

Lambeth Degree
Doctorate of Letters (DLitt).

Poetical works

Much of Scott's poetry employs an engagingly subdued tone for its treatment of his clerical duties and events in the lives of his parishioners. He has also produced numerous impressively concise poems on literary and ecclesiastical figures; these include 'A Walk with St Teresa of Avila', notable for the interplay of a witty spiritual surrealism with his characteristically precise use of local detail.

โ€” The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (ed. Jenny Stringer), entry Scott, David

Spiritual works

Plays

(for the National Youth Music Theatre, with Jeremy James Taylor)

  • Bendigo Boswell, first performed 1983 (Weinberger, 1984)
  • Captain Stirrick, first performed 1981 (Weinberger, 1985)
  • Jack Spratt VC, first performed 1986 (Weinberger, 1987)
  • Les Petits Rats, first performed 1988 (Weinberger, 1991)
  • The Powder Monkeys (SchoolPlay Productions, 1993)
    ISBN 1-872475-08-6

References

  1. ^ "David Scott (1947-2022)". Bloodaxe Books.
  2. ^ "Gazette, XVI (ns), supplement". Durham University. Retrieved 19 April 2019.

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