David Scott (poet)

David Scott (poet)

Reverend Canon Dr David Scott is a Church of England priest, poet, playwright and spiritual writer.

David Victor Scott was born in Cambridge, England, in 1947. He was educated at Solihull School, then studied Theology at Durham University and at Cuddesdon College. After ordination he spent two years as curate at Harlow, then was appointed chaplain at Haberdashers' Aske's School. In 1980 he became vicar of Torpenhow and Allhallows in Cumbria, and in 1991 moved to Winchester to become rector of St Lawrence with St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate. Canon Scott retired in September 2010 and now lives in Cumbria.

Canon Scott is an Honorary Canon of Winchester Cathedral and an honorary fellow of the University of Winchester. In 2008 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on David Scott a Lambeth Degree Doctorate of Letters (DLitt).

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Poetical works

Much of Scott's poetry employs an engagingly subdued tone for its treatment of his clerical duties and events in the lives of his parishioners. He has also produced numerous impressively concise poems on literary and ecclesiastical figures; these include 'A Walk with St Teresa of Avila', notable for the interplay of a witty spiritual surrealism with his characteristically precise use of local detail.
— The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English (ed. Jenny Stringer), entry Scott, David

Spiritual works

Plays

(for the National Youth Music Theatre, with Jeremy James Taylor)

  • Bendigo Boswell, first performed 1983 (Weinberger, 1984)
  • Captain Stirrick, first performed 1981 (Weinberger, 1985)
  • Jack Spratt VC, first performed 1986 (Weinberger, 1987)
  • Les Petits Rats, first performed 1988 (Weinberger, 1991)
  • The Powder Monkeys (SchoolPlay Productions, 1993) ISBN 1872475086

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