patricides

by David Pollard

‘Pollard’s intensive, ontological meditations on loss, language and ‘the death of God’, creativity and the failure of writing, are quite wonderful and wholly unexpected. So we end up with a profes- sional philosopher who lectures in both philosophy and literature and produces his first book of poetry in his sixties - a pretty heady late flowering - there’s nobody remotely like him.’ - Simon Jenner

87 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

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.