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. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from particular localities: Scilly, the North of England,...
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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. Many of the poems in his latest collection spring from particular localities: Scilly, the North of England, Southern France, the Aegean, Wales; others from certain places (loci) in literature and mythology. Inspired by such ?local habitations' and the people who live there, the poems of Elder express gratitude and loyalty, but also grief at every harm and death. Published on his 70th birthday, David Constantine's tenth book of poetry sounds many persona
Cover; Description; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1; How will they view us, the receiving angels…?; Old Town; A local habitation; Swallows on the island; Love story; Under Samson Hill; L'amour, la mer; Mirror, window; Facing east, at the window; Facing the wall, north; Elder; On the bridge; Bad dream; Limestone; Shameful; Miranda inland; Idyll; 2; Hydrofoil, fish, gulls; The Gate of the Charites; House by the ancient agora; Pan; Kouros carrying a ram; Stele; Marble quarry; Horse, man and woman, Hermes; Sanctuary of the Dioscuri; Stoa; Sanctuary; Stoa and sanctuary; 3; Orphic
Baucis and PhilemonPhaethon's sisters; Daphne; Myrrha; Erysichthon and his daughter Mestra; 4; The Rec; Gwyn Robert and the seal; Our Lady of the Blackthorn and the Snow; Owls; Hölderlin Fragments; 5; Foxes, rain; Bread, full moon; High tide, early, 19 February 2011; The makings of his breathing…; For a while after a death…; Cloud opening, 19 February 2012; 6; Told one of the goldfish wouldn't last the night…; J.P.; As though… because…; Envoi; A Faiyum death mask; Tomba 736, una donna, Enotria, VI secolo a. C.; Red on black; Cast of a woman of Pompeii, Manchester Museum; Heysham, rock tombs
A love of churchesRomanesque; A Romanesque church in the Rouergue; Roman sarcophagus of a man and wife, Salerno Cathedral; NOTES; About the Author; Copyright
