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
personal elegiac notes as well as - in the story of Erysichthon,
for example - anxiety at the abuse of Earth, but there is also much
celebration of love, beauty and the hope and aspiration in human
beings to live well in the time allowed.
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