DAVID CONSTANTINE READING
This event on 29th April 2010 has past.
"To say that his writing is "poetic" gives the wrong idea - it is weighted, gritty, it understands the nature of English, as good poetry must." - The Guardian
David Constantine is co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation, acclaimed poet, novelist, critic and translator, and a Fellow of Queen's College. His translations of German poetry have twice won him the European Poetry Translation Prize, while his original writing has won him the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, the Southern Arts Literature Prize and the Runciman Award. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem for 'Trilobite in the Wenlock Shales'. His poetry has a dark, philosophical intensity, often inspired by classical myth and Biblical tales, which has led to comparisons with Blake, Graves and even Dante; nevertheless they are hauntingly intimate, and emotionally candid.
...Even the lovers
Turned their desires on the sea, and a fat man
Hung with equipment to photograph the occasion
Stared like a saint, through sad bi-focals...
Watching for Dolphins
Free tea/coffee/biscuits!
Entry: £5 non-students, £3 students and £1 members of OUPS
Time: 8:00pm for 8:30pm
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