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mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial’s work that still resonate today

The post-Romantic lore of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture

’ – Jon Glover

perhaps because of a desire to place themselves in the broader context of world literature or simply because of a youthful opposition to their predecessors

Belongings by David Constantine membership brazen crooks and a ghastlyLike the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantines poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. The title of his eleventh collection, Belongings, signals that these are poems concerned both with our possessions and with what possesses us. Among much else in the word belongings, the poems draw on a sense of our co ordinates something like the eastings and northings that give a map reference how you might