David Chorlton
has lived in Phoenix since 1978 when he moved from
Vienna, Austria, with his wife. Born in Austria, he
grew up in Manchester, close to rain and the
northern English industrial zone. In his early 20s
he went to live in Vienna and from there enjoyed
many trips around Europe to enjoy and paint its
landscapes and towns. In Arizona he has grown ever
more fascinated by the desert and its wildlife.
His
books include:A Normal Day Amazes Us
(Kings Estate Press), 2003
Return to Waking Life
(Main Street Rag Publishing Company), 2004
Waiting for the Quetzal
(March Street Press), 2006
The Porous Desert
(Future Cycle Press), 2007
The Devil's Sonata
(Future Cycle Press). He
has also published many chapbooks, and has twice won
the Slipstream Chapbook Contest, most recently for
From the Age of Miracles in 2009,
and in 2008, won the Ronald Wardall Award from Rain
Mountain Press for The Lost River.
His
past readings include The Tucson Poetry Festival in
1984 and the Bisbee Festival in 1991. He likes to
see poems in unexpected places, and this year one of
his was interred with desert legume seeds from The
Boyce Thompson Arboretum in the Global Seed Vault in
Svalbard, Norway. He often reads a poem for Maricopa
Audubon meetings, had a poem included in the British
Museum’s anthology, BIRDS, and has recently read in
performances by Opendance.
