‘Conversations With Birds’ is my first collection and as you would expect birds feature in most of the poems. They are not however the principal subjects of the poems but a means by which the poems remain rooted in the natural world of which we are physically and spiritually a part.
As a child I spent a great deal of time in the woods or on the cliffs and beaches of the Gower coast where I lived. As a young boy.
I spent my time identifying and observing the birds and creatures, who were my natural companions. As a child one does not doubt ones connection with the natural world and ones ability to communicate on some level with it.

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‘Enough to Love a Multitude’ is his first published collection of poems. Many of his poetic motifs in the collection arise from the gentle landscape & slow rivers of Suffolk in which he finds divinity, solace, and inspiration. This collection is both personal & universal in its exploration of the vicissitudes of life and the soul’s journey through the archetypal dark wood. It is about the consolation & redemption to be found in nature. Above all it is an invocation of love. 

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The poems and paintings in this collection are a testament to Dave Martin’s profound and long lasting attachment to the coastal path of Pembrokeshire.

In wind and waves your shadow moves;
Your present absence in the ebb and flow of tides,
Your absent presence moves me still, moves on
And takes its place among the stars.