A Decade of Transition: A Collection of the Poems of David Williams, 2004-2014 - Softcover

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David Williams is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine. He is Welsh and now a resident of the USA. With his wife Peggy he spends three months a year in Franschhoek. He has written many books of a medical /technology nature and uses the tranquility of Franschhoek to develop a more personal and philosophical approach to writing. His first, and so far only, book of poetry, A Decade in Transition, was published in Cape Town in 2016. Several other are planned. He regularly reads poetry at events in the USA. A few years ago, with Professor Peter Zilla, the Christiaan Barnard Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Groote Schuur, he created a company, Strait Access Technologies, which is developing therapies to treat young people, especially in Africa, who suffering and dying from rheumatic heart disease. He is Chairman of the company, and clinical trials of their technology will take place shortly. In 2012 he and Professor Zilla gave a Café Scientifique at the Ebony Gallery in Franschhoek. This was titled ‘Straight to the Heart of a Child’. This was the inspiration for a Café Poetique, ‘Heart of Lightness’ which took place at Ebony in 2014.