David shares his daily life as a writer in ‘Pacific Light’, a film by Chrissy Mason and Anna Cadden.
What brought me across the Pacific from America to lutruwita (Tasmania)?
Love brought me here.
I fell in love with Australian poet Cally Conan-Davies when I first read her work. We met. And we’ve been together ever since, first in Colorado where I was Poet Laureate, and then on the Oregon Coast in the American northwest.
But Cally wanted to return with me to her home, Australia’s southernmost state, which most of us call by its indigenous name, lutruwita. Otherwise known as Tasmania.
From 44° N to 43° S.
Where I found a radically different place, a different life – and the profound challenge of writing about the change. Which I first got to grips with in my collection Pacific Light.
