With Signs Following

‘Exceptional mastery of verse, and the perspective from which he views reality illuminates aspects of everyday life with a virtuosity that combines seriousness with wit. A truly resonant book of poetry.’ — Nasos Vayenas

With Signs Following, David Ricks’s first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades. With an afterword by A. E. Stallings.

With Signs Following, David Ricks’s first full collection, brings together poems and translations written over the last three decades. - ‘It seems astonishing that this is David Ricks’s first full-length collection of poems, but then he has been in no haste, writing and polishing and storing up these gems over decades, even as he has laboured more publicly as a scholar of modern Greek literature. The result is a debut worth waiting for: formally adept, beautifully achieved poems that exist outside of the fluctuations of fashion, unabashedly serious, learned, and well crafted.’ — from the afterword by A. E. Stallings