Ezra Pound: Making It New - Dr Daniel Swift Poet in the City · Interview with Dr. Daniel Swift at Poet in the City's Ezra Pound - Making It New event Dr Daniel Swift is a Senior Lecturer in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare, and the poetry of the Second World War, and also edited the poems of John Berryman. This interview was conducted on 31st October 2018 at Kings Place by Tom Deveson at Ezra Pound: Making It New.