David Smith

David Smith is a writer and performer whose work has appeared under various names in print, online and on BBC radio since he cut his teeth as a performance poet in his home town of Tunbridge Wells. As one third of The Gluten-free Trio and one half of Flitt & Folio he has entertained audiences with words and song as performer and host at poetry events, music and arts festivals, and anywhere else they will have him. Available now for socially distanced weddings and Bar Mitzvahs.

In more serious vein, David's 'proper page poetry' has won several prizes and seen him included in magazines and periodicals that find depths in his work that often surprise even him. The video on this page brings to animated life one of the poems from 'Family Favourites': a homage to the legendary (in the UK at least) Punk Poet, John Cooper Clarke...