News from Afar Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries

Richard Parker was an assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Gaziantep in Turkey from 2012-14. He has written papers on Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky and other recent poetries in the USA and Britain. He is the editor and printer of the Crater pamphlet series and has had various books of his own poetry published, including from The Mountain of California - , China, The Traveller and the Defence of Heaven and 49.