David Olsen is the American author of five full-length poetry collections published in Britain and four poetry chapbooks from the US. He is also a playwright, writer of short fiction, and former freelance journalist who has lived in Oxford, England, since 2002.
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Unfolding Origami (2015) won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. David's second poetry collection, Past Imperfect (2019), is also from Cinnamon Press. After Hopper & Lange (2021), his third poetry collection, is from Oversteps Books. Nocturnes (2021) and The Lost Language of Shadows (2022) , his fourth and fifth collections, are from Dempsey & Windle.
A published review of After Hopper & Lange appears here:
https://londongrip.co.uk/2021/07/london-grip-poetry-review-david-olsen/
David's four chapbooks are in print from US poetry publishers: Exit Wounds (2017), Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits 1983-2000 (2001).
David’s poems have appeared in more than 100 North American and European anthologies and literary journal titles from seven countries.
Among these titles are Britain’s Acumen, Magma, Envoi, Poetry News, Dream Catcher, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, Frogmore Papers, South, Prole, Ink Sweat & Tears, Proletarian Poetry, London Journal of Fiction, The Journal, Lunar Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Northampton Poetry Review, International Times, SAW Poetry, Assent, Poetry Nottingham, Oxford Magazine, and other British magazine titles. His work appears in more than ten British anthologies, including those from Cinnamon Press (6), Templar Poetry (2), Belgrave Press, Writing Magazine, The Poetry Kit, and University of London’s Human Rights Consortium.
His publications in North America and elsewhere include the journals Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Pedestal, Vermont Literary Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Turtle Island Quarterly, California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Plath Profiles, Scintilla, Bohemian Renaissance, The Lake, Strong Voices, Touch: The Journal of
Healing, Months to Years, Winning Writers Newsletter, and several other American magazine titles, and anthologies from Main Street Rag (2), Concrete Wolf, Mutabilis (2), WaterWood (2), Blue Lyra, Origami Poems Project, San Francisco Peace and Hope (2), and Medusa's Laugh Press (US).
David's publications elsewhere in Europe include Salzburg Poetry Review (Austria); The French Literary Review and Paris Lit Up (both France); ROPES (Ireland); The Deronda Review (Israel/ US); and anthologies from Voices Israel (Israel/ US) and Sense (Netherlands).
Details of publications, prizes, events, and plays appear in the Biography and other pages accessible via the tabs above.
For details on his books, please use the pull-down menu on the Books tab. Signed copies of any of his books may be obtained via the email address that appears on the Contact page.
Unfolding Origami (2015) won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award. David's second poetry collection, Past Imperfect (2019), is also from Cinnamon Press. After Hopper & Lange (2021), his third poetry collection, is from Oversteps Books. Nocturnes (2021) and The Lost Language of Shadows (2022) , his fourth and fifth collections, are from Dempsey & Windle.
A published review of After Hopper & Lange appears here:
https://londongrip.co.uk/2021/07/london-grip-poetry-review-david-olsen/
David's four chapbooks are in print from US poetry publishers: Exit Wounds (2017), Sailing to Atlantis (2013), New World Elegies (2011), and Greatest Hits 1983-2000 (2001).
David’s poems have appeared in more than 100 North American and European anthologies and literary journal titles from seven countries.
Among these titles are Britain’s Acumen, Magma, Envoi, Poetry News, Dream Catcher, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, Frogmore Papers, South, Prole, Ink Sweat & Tears, Proletarian Poetry, London Journal of Fiction, The Journal, Lunar Poetry, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Northampton Poetry Review, International Times, SAW Poetry, Assent, Poetry Nottingham, Oxford Magazine, and other British magazine titles. His work appears in more than ten British anthologies, including those from Cinnamon Press (6), Templar Poetry (2), Belgrave Press, Writing Magazine, The Poetry Kit, and University of London’s Human Rights Consortium.
His publications in North America and elsewhere include the journals Blueline, Lunch Ticket, Pedestal, Vermont Literary Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, The Aurorean, Pinyon, Pilgrimage, Turtle Island Quarterly, California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter, Plath Profiles, Scintilla, Bohemian Renaissance, The Lake, Strong Voices, Touch: The Journal of
Healing, Months to Years, Winning Writers Newsletter, and several other American magazine titles, and anthologies from Main Street Rag (2), Concrete Wolf, Mutabilis (2), WaterWood (2), Blue Lyra, Origami Poems Project, San Francisco Peace and Hope (2), and Medusa's Laugh Press (US).
David's publications elsewhere in Europe include Salzburg Poetry Review (Austria); The French Literary Review and Paris Lit Up (both France); ROPES (Ireland); The Deronda Review (Israel/ US); and anthologies from Voices Israel (Israel/ US) and Sense (Netherlands).
Details of publications, prizes, events, and plays appear in the Biography and other pages accessible via the tabs above.