DS Davidson

DS Davidson is a stalwart of Atlantean Publishing, long-time contributor, divisive poet, and founding editor of Garbaj. he is the currently the editor of Tigershark ezine — see also its page on this site. He had the honour of authoring the first in the new series of Xmas Bards and was the last regular Monomyth Featured Poet.
==Appearances In Fiction==
*DS Davidson has appeared in fictional guise in The Day of the Davidians, where he is subjected to much satire over what his mysterious initials might stand for (something Neil K. Henderson often did in his letters).
*DS Davidson appears in two Amoral Detective Agency stories: a brief cameo in The Hounds of Lust and a leading role, along with references to his booklet Surviving The Coming Apocalypse, and his story Ashbydon Hall, in The Shudder Out Of Time. They team up again in Nomads of the Timestreams.
*A DS (that is, Detective Sergeant) Davidson appears in DJ Tyrer's story Swine, published in Mad Science/Malevolent Mansions (Barbwire Butterfly Books).
==Publication Elsewhere==
*Miss, Miss, Give Us A Kiss! (co-written with DJ Tyrer) appeared in an issue of Infinitas in 2000.
*DS Davidson contributed articles or reviews to all six issues of Redsine in 2000/01.
*The poem Sound of Silence appeared in the July 2013 issue of Poetry Explosion Newsletter (The Pen).
* DS Davidson has contributed poetry to issues 12,13, 16 and 19 of Cyaegha fanzine (2015/16/17).
* The poems Apocalyptic and Sound of Silence appeared in the November/December 2017 issue of the CRM Online Newsletter
==Awards==
===Data Dump Award===
*His poem Effervescent was long-listed in 2016.
*His poem Mars Attack was long-listed in 2014.
*His poem Walt Disney's Cryogenic Head was long-listed in 2012.
*His poem Strange Days was long-listed in 2007
==Publications==
===Broadsides===
*The Bards 10: These Fortean Times
*The Bards 26: Love and Hate...
*Xmas Bards 1: Counting The Days...
*Xothic Sathlattae: The Sixth Sathlatta
*Xothic Sathlattae: The Eleventh Sathlatta
*Yellow Leaves 9: Dreams of Carcosa
*Garbaj presents... Preparing For Things You Cannot Reasonably Expect To Prepare For Adequately – or, An Exercise In Futility
*Garbaj presents... Deal or No Deal: Surviving Brexit
===Poetry Booklets===
*Step Inside My Mind...
*The Poetaster's Response
===Fiction Booklets and collections===
*Surviving The Coming Apocalypse
=== Buxton University Press ===
* The Book of Nevermore
==Poetry Appearances in Atlantean publications==
===Poetry Booklets===
==== A Broken Mind ====
* The Monster in the Ruins
* Shattered Thoughts
==== Angst ====
* Sound of Silence
* I Wish I Knew
* untitled haiku ("Live a wasted life...")
* untitled couplet ("If this plateau is as happy as I'll ever be ...")
* The Cynic
====Apocalypse: Poetry from the End of the World====
*Doomsday
*Santapocalypse
*All I Want For Christmas
==== Beyond The Wall of Death: Lovecraft @125 ====
* The Tomb
* Dreaming Minds
==== Carcass Literature ====
* Odalisque
* Carcass
==== Car Door Sans Car ====
* untitled poem
* Ring-Ting-Ting
* I sat down pen in hand, to write a psychedelic, poetic extravaganza (Helps if you recall the songs of Woodstock, although I've misremembered the words)
* Ring the Changes
==== Cast a Curse ====
* Hell-owe'en
* The King Comes
* Stranger Danger
==== Caverns Dark ====
* Hungry Haunters
* Stay Out!
==== Chapel of Ease ====
* Vile
==== Cosmic Decadent ====
* Love
==== Culinary You ====
* three untitled haiku
====Danse Macabre====
*Fright Club
*Dreams In The Witch House
*Cairn of the Old Ones
====The Dark Tower Volume 4: A Skull of Doom====
*Alien Tower
*Mind Tower
==== The Dark Tower Volume 5: Towers of Time ====
* Dark Tower Neighbourhood
==== Final Arrangements ====
* two untitled haiku
==== Great War: 1914-2014 ====
* Entrenched
==== Great War: Over By Christmas ====
* By Christmas
==== Great War: To End All Wars? ====
* Finished By Flu
* untitled backcover haiku
==== Lunar Module ====
* Pledge to Return
* Good Night, Moon
==== The Vegetable Archdeacon ====
* In San Francisco
* Farewell World!
==== Witching Hour ====
* Skeleton Waltz
* untitled haiku
* Cackling
===Awen===
====Awen 74====
*Strange Sounds
====Awen 76====
*untitled haiku
====Awen 78====
*Playing Politics
*French Reich
====Awen 80====
*Revolution Time
====Awen 81====
*Mars Attack
*Strangely
*Publicity
*untitled haiku
====Awen 82====
*three untitled haiku
====Awen 83====
*Floods Limerick
*Beneath The Black Stone
*Running Out Of Time
==== Awen 85 ====
* Ratings War
* For You
==== Awen 87 ====
* untitled haiku
===Awen Online===
====Awen Online 1====
*Comet
*Probe
*Message In A Bottle
*Star Wars
====Awen Online 2====
*The Haunted House
====Awen Online 5====
*Embrace
====Awen Online 6====
*The Sun
====Awen Online 9====
*Alice Down The Wormhole
====Awen Online 10====
*Life & Death
====Awen Online 11====
*Mars Attacks
*untitled haiku ("Voyage to Venus ...")
==== Awen Online 12 ====
* Hero
* Knights Adventurous
* untitled haiku ("knights adventurous...")
===Bard===
====Bard 119====
*Christmas On The Wagon
*Christmas Off The Rails
====Bard 120====
*Yuggoth On The Rim
====Bard 124====
*Rejection
====Bard 125====
*Carcosa Haiku
====Bard 128====
*Childhood Haiku
====Bard 133====
*Rocket's Red Glare
====Bard 134====
*Starfighter
====Bard 137====
*Sad Face
====Bard 139====
*Thoughtful
==== Bard 140 ====
* Gaza
==== Bard 141 ====
* Take A Glance
==== Bard 143 ====
* Christmas Songs
==== Bard 147 ====
* Election Time
==== Bard 149 ====
* untitled haiku
==== Bard 150 ====
* untitled haiku
==== Bard 151 ====
* Effervescent
==== Bard 152 ====
* Last Christmas
* untitled haiku
==== Bard 153 ====
* Haunted Hospital
==== Bard 154 ====
* untitled haiku
==== Bard 155 ====
* Vacuum Packed
==== Bard 156 ====
* Destiny In A City Street
===Garbaj===
====Garbaj 49====
*Food For Thought
====Garbaj 50====
*Addiction
*Iced
*To Use And Abuse
*untitled haiku
*Limerick Limerick
*Baldie Limerick
====Garbaj 51====
*Wrongdoing
====Garbaj 52====
*Doomsday
*Cthulhu Haiku
====Garbaj 53====
*untitled psychic haiku
====Garbaj 54====
*Missing Episodes
==== Garbaj 55 ====
* untitled poem
==== Garbaj 57 ====
* Yew Tree
* untitled poem
==== Garbaj 58 ====
* The King In Yellow On Hallowe'en
==== Garbaj 60 ====
* Free Speech
==== Garbaj 61 ====
* Unto The Ballot Box
==== Garbaj 62 ====
* Scotland The Bold
* Untitled Limerick
==== Garbaj 63 ====
* Thong
* Greek Holiday
==== Garbaj 64 ====
* Mary Poppins Redux
* untitled poem
==== Garbaj 65 ====
* two untitled haiku
==== Garbaj 67 ====
* Shooting Civil Servants
==== Garbaj 68 ====
* On Trend
=== Monomyth ===
==== Monomyth 60 ====
* Tower of Night
* The King In Tatters
==== Monomyth 61 ====
* Hope
== Prose Fiction ==
=== Fiction Booklets ===
==== Christmas Chillers V ====
* Whatever Happened to Santa Claus?
==== Christmas Chillers VI ====
* Rudolph's Red Nose
===Awen===
====Awen 82====
*The Chessboards of Fate
===Garbaj===
====Garbaj 54====
*Doctor Who & The Sideboard of Doom
===Monomyth===
====Monomyth 52====
*The Chessboards of Fate
*The Final Mirror
====Monomyth 54====
*After The End
==== Monomyth 55 ====
* Jin-Yu & The Grail
==== Monomyth 56 ====
* Tolerance & Compassion
==== Monomyth 58 ====
* Yuggoth On The Rim
== Humour ==
====Garbaj 49====
*two untitled quips
== Non-Fiction ==
====The Supplement 61====
*Pirates Ahoy!
====The Supplement 65====
*Three reviews
== Artwork ==
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