Red Dress

‘Moving, real, life-affirming, lucid... Everything I think poems should be.’ –  Liz Lochhead 

‘One of the most insightful and thought-provoking poets around.’ – Ron Butlin 

‘David Cameron is not your usual, institutionalised poet.’ – Nick Major 

Love, a trapeze artist, a male-impersonating music hall singer, McCartney’s silk-smooth voice and Lennon’s rasping one, two parched shrubs on a porch, the women of The Waste Land, Jodie Foster in a red dress: these poems celebrate the minute particulars of life, and also lament the times when life goes badly wrong, trying through words to set right – to redress – wrongs done. 

Give me wide-openness of light and air, 

At last the gift of truly being there, 

The rain so that the day won’t seem just lucky, 

And in the nightmarish absence of you – 

Love having failed, like eyesight, over time – 

The honest truth, which all wants to return to. 

About the author 

David Cameron was born in Glasgow and has lived in Ireland, north and south, for the past two decades. Red Dress is his third collection of poems. He has also published novels, short stories, and a book about Samuel Beckett. He is a recipient of the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. 

ISBN: 978-1-910996-75-1 

No of Pages: 108 pp 

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Watch Two poems from 'Red Dress' by David Cameron