David William Parry

David William Parry is a British author. He has written two collections of poetry, Caliban's Redemption (2004) and The Grammar of Witchcraft (2009), as well as a collection of essays, Mount Athos Inside Me: Essays on Religion, Swedenborg and Arts (2019).

Career

Parry has written three books. His first book, Caliban's Redemption (2004), is a collection of occult poems. Writing in The London Magazine, Richard Rudgley described Parry's poetry as "homoerotic mysticism".

Next, Parry published The Grammar of Witchcraft (2009). An adaptation of the poetry was staged at Etcetera Theater in Camden in 2022. John Cutler of The Reviews Hub called it "the theatrical equivalent of pâté de foie gras: dense (rich even), provocative in its ingredients, not to everyone’s taste, and probably best enjoyed only occasionally".

Parry's third book, Mount Athos Inside Me: Essays on Religion, Swedenborg and Arts (Manticore Press 2019), is a collection of essays. Parry spoke at TEDxLambeth alongside Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, in a talk entitled "a chat on conceptual arts". Parry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Parry leads Valentine's Hall. In August 2021, BBC London News described Parry's church in south London "as a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community". In this role he appeared as a contestant on Jimmy Carr's I Literally Just Told You in 2022.

Parry co-founded a weekly podcast show called THA Talks with Paul Obertelli in 2014 to create a platform that encouraged "Free Thoughts and Open Minds". Relatedly, according to the advocacy group Hope not Hate, Parry co-founded The Extremists Club with Jez Turner. In 2017, The Independent reported that in an infiltration of the “alt-right” in the UK, Patrik Hermansson of Hope not Hate was introduced to The Extremists Club.

In 2013, Parry was interviewed by The Guardian about the UK Border Agency's treatment of a Russian-born poet, Alex Galper (who had studied under Allen Ginsberg). Parry was Chairman of Eurasian Creative Guild (ECG). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Works

• Caliban's Redemption (2004)
• The Grammar of Witchcraft (2009)
• Mount Athos Inside Me: Essays on Religion, Swedenborg and Arts (2019)
• Women in Mayhem: Or Three Nonsensical Pranks (2024)