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The past decade has seen a great deal of activity from David Constantine in the fields of translation, short story writing and editing, but although Bloodaxe brought out his Collected in 2004, this is his first new poetry collection since the 2002 Whitbread-shortlisted Something for the Ghosts. Drawing on the sensibilities of the European poets - Goethe, Michaux, Hölderlin - whose work he knows so intimately, Constantine's humane and serious volume weighs the life of the individual against the crash and tumble of the wider world and finds in favour of the subtler forces and complexities of the former. --Sarah Crown, Guardian
The mood is both tender and desperate, with something 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
The mood is both tender and desperate, with something 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
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Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine's poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. In the title-poem of his latest collection - which illuminates the themes of the whole book - the lovers are a utopian answering back against the curse (following a crime against Nature) that is carried by the ship passing above them. Throughout these poems, the personal life, with its own joys and suffering, asserts itself against a world whose characteristic forces are dispiriting and destructive. NINE FATHOM DEEP shows how all personal life and all poetry written from it deal with the realities of social and political life in the here and now, assert themselves, fight for survival, and actively seek to make a world in which humane self-realisation would be more and more, not less and less, possible.
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All of David Constantine's books are a pleasure to read, they are excellently
written and reveal a sensitve understanding of human psychology. This is a poetry book of outstanding use of language and poetic imagery.A must for poetry lovers.
written and reveal a sensitve understanding of human psychology. This is a poetry book of outstanding use of language and poetic imagery.A must for poetry lovers.
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