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

‘a master of verse form – as his stalwart collection With Signs Following shows – Ricks has a deep knowledge of the meaning of poetic translation and its role in literary production’, Nasos Vayenas, To Vima 30 June 2024

David Ricks’s poems have appeared in American magazines over the last three decades; a pamphlet of them, Shreds and Patches, was published by Rack Press in 2022. He has written about many of the modern Greek poets who matter and has published versions from the work of some.