"Scott belongs firmly to the long tradition of parson-poets that goes back at least as far as George Herbert. For all their reticence, there is a compassion in these poems and a sense of propriety."
Norman Nicholson

David Scott was born in 1947 in Cambridge. He was educated at Solihull School, and studied Theology at Durham and then at Cuddesdon College near Oxford. He spent two years as a curate in Harlow, and then became School Chaplain at Haberdashersí Askeís School, Elstree, where he taught religious education. He was vicar of Torpenhow and Allhallows in Cumbria for eleven years, and since 1991 has been Rector of St Lawrence with St Swithun in Winchester and Warden of the Diocesan School of Spirituality. He is an Honorary Canon of Winchester Cathedral. In 1978 he won the Sunday Times/BBC national poetry competition with his poem ëKirkwall Auction Martí. A Quiet Gathering, his first book of poems, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1984, and won him the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1986. His second collection, Playing for England (Bloodaxe Books, 1989) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Both books were illustrated by Graham Arnold of the Brotherhood of Ruralists. His latest collection is Piecing Together (Bloodaxe Books, 2005).