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The mood is both tender and desperate, with some-thing of the uncanny in its blend of the recognisably human and apparently Other… His religious regard for the world (not the same thing as religious conviction) produces a strange translation of its ordinary terms. Its colours and joys and terrors are heightened as though by fever, yet at the same time brought into clearer focus. --Sean O'Brien, Poetry Review
Constantine's peculiar vision is an uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday...the beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost indistinguishable... Overwhelmingly the poems are intelligent and well-turned, setting out the tensions between innocence and experience with fine control. --Elizabeth Lowry, TLS
Constantine's peculiar vision is an uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday...the beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost indistinguishable... Overwhelmingly the poems are intelligent and well-turned, setting out the tensions between innocence and experience with fine control. --Elizabeth Lowry, TLS
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David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English. His poetry stands outside the current literary climate, and like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, it is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. Its mood is often one of unease, elegiac or comically edged, barbed with pain or tinged with pleasure. His poems hold a worried and restless balance between celebration and anxiety, restraint and longing. His COLLECTED POEMS spans three decades, including work from seven previous Bloodaxe titles and two limited editions, as well as a whole collection of new poems. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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Showcases the transformation of Constantine's gift and message over the years of his life
6 July 2005
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Collected Poems is an anthology of three decades of poetry by award-winning poet David Constantine. Including work from seven previous titles and two limited editions, as well as a gallery of brand new poems, Collected Poems showcases the transformation of Constantine's gift and message over the years of his life. Poignant, sometimes sharply insightful, sometimes wistful and distant, the free-verses communicate their tales of varying length directly to the reader's heart and spirit. Absence: Absence is easy to imagine lasting / Always in a place / He was. Shall I visit again / Because it is a place I missed him in? // All's a museum now. You can watch a silent film / Of dockers freighting the big ships / Of the five oceans tucked in snug / Thirty-five miles inland. The living image.
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