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/).
 

He has published in learned journals and poetry magazines.

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.