bedbound

by David Pollard

In this compelling new sequence David Pollard attests to the power of poetry to illuminate that final darkness in which a beloved life moves to its close. Profoundly conscious of the Romantic and Modernist forebears, he purges sentimentality and false rhetoric from his language in order to register, strenuously and truthfully, the consequences of remaining alert in the presence of death This is poetry at the threshold of its powers- straining, fragmentary, delusional. With 'bedbound', Pollard opens a fresh perspective on the art of witness in a manner that is consistently subtle, searching and , above all, unflinching

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

David Pollard was born in London in 1942. He fled accountancy to the University of Sussex where he was given his three degrees in literature, the history of ideas and philosophy. The last of these, a doctorate, was published as The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience and is a Heideggerian interpretation of the poet. He has also published other work on Keats, as well as on Blake and Nietzsche. His latest, Nietzsche’s Footfalls, a meditation on the philosopher and his times, came out in 2003. He has also reviewed extensively in the fields of both philosophy and literature. Pollard’s work has appeared in: Omphalos, Tears in the Fence, Aletheia, Fire, Eratica, Eclipse and Poetry Monthly. He is curently writing a comparison of Blake and Nietzsche.