Songs From the Language of a Declaration

by David Herd

"David Herd’s latest collections of poetry, Songs from the Language of a Declaration, has been published as a Periplum Poetry Pamphlet and is available from the University of Plymouth online store.

His collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet, 2012), Outwith (Bookthug 2012), Through (Carcanet, 2016), and Walk Song (Equipage, 2018). His essays and poems have been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in From the European South, Los Angeles Review of Books, Paideuma, and the Times Literary Supplement.

David Herd is Professor of Modern Literature at the School of English and is a co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales, raising awareness of indefinite immigration detention."

30 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

David Herd is a poet, critic, and teacher. His collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet 2012), Outwith (Bookthug 2012), and Through (Carcanet 2016), and his recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Parallax and Almost Island. He is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent, has worked with Kent Refugee Help since 2009, and is a coordinator of Refugee Tales.