DAVID LLOYD is an Irish-born poet, playwright, and critic. Among his publications are Arc & Sill: Poems 1979-2009 (Shearsman, 2012) and The Harm Fields (Georgia Review Books, 2022). A chapbook, terra terra, appeared with Magra Books in May 2022. His play The Press/Le Placard was previously published in a bilingual edition by Presses universitaires du Midi. His most recent critical books include Beckett's Thing: Painting and Theatre (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and Counterpoetics of Modernity: On Irish Poetry and Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Riverside.