David Pollard’s doctoral thesis was published as: The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience. He has published two novels, Nietzsche’s Footfalls and The Metamorphoses of Titus and ten volumes of poetry. These include Self-Portraits, Three Artists, patricides, Risk of Skin, bedbound and Finis-terre (Agenda Editions) – a Poetry Book Society Choice. David Pollard lives in a village on the Rias of Galicia.