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Born 1942
of a long line of rabbis but a critical father, Pollard has been a
furniture salesman, accountant, TEFL teacher
and university lecturer. He got his three degrees at the University
of Sussex. He is the author of The Poetry of Keats: Language and
Experience which was his doctoral thesis,
The KWIC Concordance to the Harvard Edition of Keats’
Letters, a novel Nietzsche’s Footfalls,
and two volumes of poetry patricides and
Risk of Skin (http://www.waterloopress.co.uk/#/authors-o-s/4555601196)
and
bedbound (http://www.perdikapress.com/authors/david-pollard/).
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He has
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Risk of Skin
Now over four years
since his first volume of poetry for Waterloo Press, Risk of
Skin marks a new phase in Pollard’s engagement with the
essence of human existence. Rather more varied than the earlier
volume it includes a set of obituaries, poems on historical
characters, on creativity and mortality. The volume ends with a
series of pieces on Keats and his circle which is a new
departure for this poet. This is an inspiring and original book
of poems.
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