Dick Davis 
Author

Poems

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Edgar english

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Getting Away english

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A Photograph of Two Brothers english

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Ibn Battuta english

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Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son english

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Your Children Growing english

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[I lay down in the darkness of my soul...] english

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[The heart has its abandoned mines...] english

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Flight english

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Water english

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Dick Davis 
Author

* 18.04.1945, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
lives in: Columbus, United States

Dick Davis was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945, and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester, where he made his PhD. in Medieval Persian Literature.

He has taught at the universities of Tehran (Iran), Durham (U.K.), Newcastle (U.K.), and California (Santa Barbara) and is currently Professor of Persian at Ohio State University.

He lived for 8 years in Iran, as well as for periods in Greece and Italy. He worked for some years as a freelance writer and during this period published c. 150 articles and reviews in the British national press.

As author, translator or editor, he has produced more than 20 books; as well as academic works he has published translations from Italian (prose) and Persian (prose and verse) and numerous books of poetry, including A Trick of Sunlight (2006), Belonging (2002), Touchwood (1996), and Devices and Desires (1989).

Publications
  • In the Distance

    London: Anvil Press, 1975

  • Seeing the World

    London: Anvil Press, 1980

  • The Covenant

    London: Anvil Press, 1984

  • Devices and Desires

    New and Selected Poems

    London: Anvil Press, 1989

  • A Kind of Love

    New and Selected Poems

    Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 1991

  • Touchwood

    Poems 1991-1995

    London: Anvil Press, 1996

  • Belonging

    Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 2002

  • A Trick of Sunlight

    Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 2006

Awards
  • 1979 Arts Council of Great Britain Writers’ Award

  • 1981 Heinemann Award

  • 1987 Fulbright Travel Award

  • 1989 Book of the Year

  • 1989 Persian Heritage Foundation Award

  • 1993 Ingram Merrill Prize

  • 2002 Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University