Urban Birdsong

Dave Lewis is from Cilfynydd, South Wales. He has always lived in Wales except for a year in Kenya. His first book - Layer Cake, a collection of poetry spanning 24 years was published in 2009. He is founder and organiser of The Welsh Poetry Competition, an international competition which seeks to encourage and nurture talented writers that have been overlooked by the arts establishment in Wales. This collection of short stories, prose & poetry is his second book.

For more information visit Dave's web site - www.david-lewis.co.uk

Praise for 'Onions' (Rhys Davies Short Story Competition 2009 runner-up) ...the world of Onions is an enclosed one; specifically, a valleys curry-house at a weekend, in which we witness the clash of several disparate cultures, all of which the writer powerfully evokes with the briefest of sketches. The epiphanic moment at the story's close is expertly done: the headlights of a passing car beam into the restaurant, and 'the people were lit up, momentarily, clear as diamonds and] Mohammed could see for the first time in his life'. A remarkably controlled piece of work - Niall Griffiths / Stevie Davies

Dave Lewis brings together the personal and social in poems and prose set in pubs, fields and bedrooms. From Ponty to Africa, he makes places come alive with both humour and the senses - Mike Jenkins

A melodic safari through a valleys consciousness - Andrew Davies, The Gallowbirds