David J Costello

I’m an award winning poet based in the UK. I organise Pop-up Poets and Pop-up Writers in my home town of Wallasey. I also work with Wirral Libraries to run a National Poetry Day Open Mic event each year at Wallasey Central Library.

My latest book Witness is published by Red Squirrel Press and you can order a copy of this along with my previous books Heft and No Need For Candles direct from me by choosing the bookshop option from the menu.

I am proud to be published by Red Squirrel Press particularly as 2026 is their 20th anniversary, no mean feat in today’s difficult small publishers market. My thanks in particular to Sheila Wakefield, founding editor and proprietor of Red Squirrel Press.