Damian Walford Davies' poetry collections: Suit of Lights (2009) (selected for Wales Literature Exchange's Autumn Bookcase), Witch (2012) Judas (2015), and Docklands: A Ghost Story (2019) have been well-received critically. He is a librettist [see A Mare's Tale: a libretto (Grey Mare)], and a translator; he is a Cymraeg speaker. He is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He has given a TEDX talk on ' Cycling, Creativity, and Commercialism' which discusses the language of cycling