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David Martin AM (22 December 1915 – 1 July 1997), born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary), was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. He also used the names Louis Adam and Louis Destiny, adopting the name David Martin after moving to ...
David Martin (poet) (1915–1997), Hungarian-Australian poet and novelist Dave Martin (screenwriter) (1935–2007), writer for the television program Doctor Who Dave Martin (jazz musician) (1907–1975), jazz pianist and songwriter
Martín & Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or "novel in verse" [1] written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987. [2] Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov, (poetry editor at Mother Jones to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison [3]), Martín, an epic poem in nine parts, Meditations on the South Valley, a ...
"The Everlasting" is the second single to be lifted from the Manic Street Preachers's fifth studio album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. It was released on 30 November 1998 through Epic , it peaked on number 11 on the UK Singles Chart , breaking their run of consecutive top-ten hits.
David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath, but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize here." However, Kirby concluded his review calling the book "funny, smart, on-again, off-again ...
All together the Notebook contains about 170 poems plus fragments of prose: Memoranda (1807), Draft for Prospectus of the Engraving of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims (1809), Public Address (1810), A Vision of the Last Judgment (1810). The latest work in the Notebook is a long and elaborated but unfinished poem The Everlasting Gospel dated c. 1818.
David Martin was a Methodist Local Preacher from 1953 to 1977, after which he was confirmed in the Anglican Church. In 1983 he attended Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge and became deacon in that year and priest in 1984, serving as Honorary Assistant Priest at Guildford Cathedral .
Douglas Stewart AO OBE (6 May 1913 – 14 February 1985) was a major twentieth century Australian poet, as well as short story writer, essayist and literary editor. He published 13 collections of poetry, 5 verse plays, including the well-known Fire on the Snow, many short stories and critical essays, and biographies of Norman Lindsay and Kenneth Slessor.