Biography

David Beach was born in 1959 in Nottinghamshire, England but grew up mainly in Wellington, New Zealand. He played way too much chess as a teenager and at 19 came second equal in the New Zealand Chess Championship. He also read far too many books and gained a BA First Class Honours in English Literature from Victoria University.

In 1986 he moved to Sydney where after a few years he began to write poems and eventually sonnets. His work was published in succulent outlets such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Bulletin, Southerly, Quadrant, Overland and Island. The poetry decamped for a while but he found an excellent alternative as a film reviewer, and then film editor, at The Sydney City Hub.

In 2002 he returned to Wellington, where he published four books of sonnets with Victoria University Press:

Abandoned Novel (2006)
The End of Atlantic City (2008)
Scenery and Agriculture (2012)
Jerusalem Sonnets, Love, Wellington Zoo (2015)

He then self-published a further four:

How To Defeat The Philistines (2018)
Laboratory Hill (2019)
Marsellus Wallace’s Dirty Laundry (2021)
L.A. Alchemy (2024)

He is hoping that the two most recent of these books – in which he proposes his Pulp Fiction briefcase time machine theory – might attract publishers. Attracted publishers are warmly invited to contact him. And he would also be very interested, if somewhat gnashing his teeth, to learn of any earlier instances of the time machine theory.