About David Bateman Compulsive Acts editor David Bateman is a performance poet, literature and creative writing instructor, journalist, and visual artist living and working in Toronto. Books by David Bateman DR SAD by (author) David Bateman Compulsive Acts Essays, Interviews, Reflections on the Work of Sky Gilbert edited by David Bateman designation youth by (author) David Bateman Tis Pity by (author) David Bateman 'Tis Pity by (author) David Bateman Wait Until Late Afternoon by (author) David Bateman & Hiromi Goto Impersonating Flowers by (author) David Bateman Invisible Foreground by (author) David Bateman