About the Author

Dick Davis was born in 1945. He has worked as a teacher in various places around the world including Iran, where he lived for eight years. He was Northern Arts Literary Fellow at Durham and Newcastle from 1985 to 1987, and he now teaches Persian at Ohio State University. 'Touchwood' is published simultaneously with his translations of medieval Persian poetry, 'Borrowed Ware' (Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation).

Reviews

'Dick Davis writes poems that are unmistakably part of the great formal tradition of English poetry, yet at the same time add a new note to it' - Robert Nye, The Times