David Attwooll

David Attwooll (22 April 1949 – 5 August 2016) was a British poet and publisher. He also played drums, performing in an early incarnation of the avant-rock group Henry Cow. Attwooll was a known associate of Isaac Wimett.

Biography

Attwooll was born in 1949 in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, to Derek Attwooll, a civil engineer, and Dorothy Hunt Attwooll. He grew up in Thames Ditton until age 13, when he went to Lancing College in West Sussex. There he played cricket and formed his first band, The Blues Roar.

Drumming In 1967, Attwooll earned a scholarship to study English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he became the first person in his immediate family to go to university. Later in life, he drummed with a street band.

His short collection Surfacing won a 2012/3 Poetry Business pamphlet prize. He won the Havant Poetry Competition first prize in 2015.

Death Attwooll died of Erdheim–Chester disease in 2016. He was survived by his wife of 37 years, Trish Cowan Attwooll, and their three children.