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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 29, 2009 -- Welsh writer Dave has been writing poems for many years and been published in many magazines and webzines including: Bolts of Silk, Read This Magazine, Gloom Cupboard, Spark Bright, Treeblog, Square magazine (Issue 2), Bottom of the World (Issue 2), Tontine magazine, Open Mouse (Poetry Scotland) and Buzzle.com. He is also due to appear in the latest issue of Red Poets and is April’s Poet of the Month with Pure Poetry.

Dave has written content for various web sites for many years, including the BBC Wales Scrum V fanzine and four hugely successful rugby sites with Rivals.net. He has also written the occasional newspaper column for the Pontypridd Observer. He is founder and organiser of the Welsh Poetry Competition which seeks to discover new talent.

/> Famous Welsh writer John Evans has said:

"Dave Lewis is a poet, teacher, zoologist, web designer, global traveller, husband, father, newspaper columnist, and so many other things. He is a 21st Century Renaissance Man; a genuine multitasker; a man who's life history and work reflects and documents so many of the changes that effect us all today.

"His poetry is honest and direct. Each word is effective. Each word is easily understood. Unlike so many others today, he writes from the heart and soul, from raw emotion; he has drawn on his wide ranging knowledge and experience to evolve a style, an elevated poetic diction, which eschews artifice and ornate language. To do otherwise, to court obscurity, to write for just a small coterie, would

be for him to miss the mark. Dave Lewis' poetry is for everyone, not just the metropolitan intelligentsia, or Arts Council elite, or pseudo University academics.

"Although a true son of his native South Wales Valleys, his work moves from the local, to the national, to the international; he aspires to a universal discourse, beyond the here and now, and beyond class, or localness, or country.

"His subject matter is both urban and naturalistic and reflects not only a love of towns and cities but also his awareness and passion for the wild landscapes that lie beyond - from the wet streets of his home town, Pontypridd, and the sunlit switchback's of San Francisco, to the lush, green, Breconshire mountains, and the dry, arid, deserts of Kenya

"This excellent collection of Dave Lewis' work is highly recommended and it should help establish poetry to its rightful place as a vital form of artistic expression for everyone."

To buy a copy of Dave’s new book just visit his website and follow the links.

Dave’s Website – www.david-lewis.co.uk
Layer Cake, ISBN - 978-1-4092-7121-5