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. He has since
published three later collections, Nine Fathom Deep (2009), Elder (2014)
and Belongings (2020).