David Pollard has been a furniture salesman, accountant, TEFL teacher and university lecturer. His doctoral thesis was published as: The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience. He has also published A KWIC Concordance to the Harvard Edition of Keats’ Letters, a novel, Nietzsche’s Footfalls and six volumes of poetry. Two are ekphrastic, Self-Portraits and Three Artists. The others are patricides, Risk of Skin, bedbound and Finis-terre (from Agenda – a Poetry Book Society choice). He divides his time between Brighton on the South coast of England and a village on the Rias of Galicia.