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Early Train
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Jonathan Davidson was born in 1964 and grew up in Didcot, South Oxfordshire. He is married with two children and lives in Coventry. He has worked for many years in literature development, running writing projects and book festivals.
He is currently Director of Midland Creative Projects and Chief Executive of Writing West Midlands.
He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his first collection of poetry, The Living Room, was published by Arc Publications in 1994. He has published two poetry pamphlets, Moving the Stereo (Jackson's Arm, 1993) and A Horse Called House (Smith/Doorstop). He has had eight radio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, along with radio adaptations of Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns and W S Graham's The Nightfishing.
His stage adaptation of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane was toured extensively by Interplay Theatre in 2008/9.
‘Jonathan Davidson has a loving, observant and wry regard for the frailties of the human condition. He makes fresh something we thought we knew; writing of the everyday the way Vermeer might be said to paint it.’ — Maura Dooley
‘These are thoughtful, lucid, deceptively simple poems; but their eye is clear and their approach graceful. Sometimes concealing a darker melancholy, they find truths in the prosaic details of our lives – such as bike frames and Sunday papers in the garden.’ — Stuart Maconie
‘Distant and yet close, intimate and yet somehow objective, the quiet power of these tender and true poems pulls you in. Davidson is as interested in the haunting strangeness of nostalgia as he is in the oddly humanising effect of the mundane. And he often finds in the ordinary something joyous and surprising. This is a remarkable collection.’ — Jackie Kay
