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Church Times, May 20, 2005
With Christian compassion, Scott steers our concern away from the obvious to the almost hidden. - Martyn Halsall
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'David Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert...For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of propriety' - norman nicholson Springing from ordinary events, or a picture, or an aspect of the priestly life, David Scott's beautifully restrained poems work up the detail into a moment of significance. They are rooted in an English culture which is found not only in locality, but also in understatement, and the sideways look. But his poetry has wider reverberations, exploring spirituality and ways of praying as well as momentary glimpses of meaning caught in everyday life. 'He is interested in the humble epiphanies associated with weathered objects and places: he seizes on the apparently insignificant but his sensual expansions are religious in tone. Quietly Scott's poems look out beyond themselves' - george szirtes, Critical Quarterly 'It is poetry that lives in the world...Scott feels absolutely no need to impress, it seems. His underplayed approach, disguising the subtle orchestration of mood, enables him to move from small matters to the brink of our ultimate concerns' - sean o'brien, Northern Review 'Immaculate poems...full of gentle, contemplative intelligence and a tenacious modesty...scrupulous, affectionate' - john mole, Encounter
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Format:Paperback
From the first poem, `First Things', about watching deer from his window, we know that this is going to be a book of placed language which hints at the energy and fragility of an active contemplation. `Meeting St John of the Cross' Scott would `look for signs of weather/at the edges of your clothes, your hands/for the way you hold your pen, and put it down'. This is a book about `such mundane sacraments', a book written by a wonderer `why the storks so love the towers of Avila'.
Scott is a priest-poet who watches, even as he prays or preaches, and sees clearly the obscurity of prayer, the huge struggle to `play Christ' `in a fast withdrawing world' and the clarity of longing. He explores the art of Craigie Aitchison and David Jones; good paintings make him want to write poetry. Except for the delightful view of heaven in `Ibn Abbad woke early' the poems are mainly quite short, a single response economically captured. At the end of the book are three meditations on Easter, and it is good to see, in poetry which knows all about doubt and struggle, that a Christian can still evoke the uniqueness of Easter with his shouted `love all alive on the sudden!'
Christopher Southgate
Scott is a priest-poet who watches, even as he prays or preaches, and sees clearly the obscurity of prayer, the huge struggle to `play Christ' `in a fast withdrawing world' and the clarity of longing. He explores the art of Craigie Aitchison and David Jones; good paintings make him want to write poetry. Except for the delightful view of heaven in `Ibn Abbad woke early' the poems are mainly quite short, a single response economically captured. At the end of the book are three meditations on Easter, and it is good to see, in poetry which knows all about doubt and struggle, that a Christian can still evoke the uniqueness of Easter with his shouted `love all alive on the sudden!'
Christopher Southgate
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David Scott is in a long line of Anglican clergy who have also been poets. He has been honing his craft for over thirty years. He won a national Sunday Times/ BBC2 award as far back as 1978.
While his faith permeates his writing, don't be put off if you don't think you share his religious beliefs, he's not at all "preachy In his verse you meet a good and gentle man, (It has been my fortune to know him personally.)
His reflection on 911 (Ibn Abad woke early" is a masterful response to that event. Whatever your religious attitudes. you will savour his quiet appreciation of the humble everyday things, and his affection for familiar things and keen appreciation of the new.
While his faith permeates his writing, don't be put off if you don't think you share his religious beliefs, he's not at all "preachy In his verse you meet a good and gentle man, (It has been my fortune to know him personally.)
His reflection on 911 (Ibn Abad woke early" is a masterful response to that event. Whatever your religious attitudes. you will savour his quiet appreciation of the humble everyday things, and his affection for familiar things and keen appreciation of the new.
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