Where The Love Is

<p>In his first volume of poetry Days of Dark and Light: Recent poems (Hobnob Press2021) David Thompson responded to</p><p>the Covid-19 pandemic with an eclectic collection of poems of wide-ranging forms and subjects. In Where the Love Is he</p><p>continues his exploration of themes close to him - memory imagination love nature and the environment and the links</p><p>between poetry and other arts. The poems including several prize-winners are wise and articulate sometimes romantic</p><p>sometimes lightly whimsical often poignant. His poetic narrative brings together a variety of forms and moods in an</p><p>elegant entertaining and very personal voice.</p><p>After military service and modern language studies at Oxford and the Sorbonne David Thompson lived in Spain and England before embarking on a long career in translation interpreting editing and publishing with the United Nations in New York and Bangkok and then with the World Health Organization in Geneva. Following a second career as a free-lance based in France he returned to Frome (Somerset) a few years ago after spending more than half his life abroad.</p><p><br></p>