Bøger af David J. Constantine

David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. His title, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned with our possessions and with what possesses us, with where we belong. Another kind of belonging is also challenged: our relationship with the planet to which we belong, but which does not belong to us.

David Constantine's 10th book of poetry, published on his 70th birthday, celebrates people and places in literature, life and mythology.

In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both city and university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject.

This retrospective covers all of David Constantine's collections from A Brightness to Cast Shadows (1980) to Something for the Ghosts (2002) plus new poems. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

David Constantine's poetry is informed by a humane vision of the world. This book shows how all personal life and all poetry written from it deal with the realities of social and political life, assert themselves, fight for survival, and seek to make a world in which humane self-realisation would be more and more, not less and less, possible.