Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby where crisis and austerity meet

where crisis and austerity meet the vanity projects of the super-rich

The exploration of memory is at once a source of ironic amusement and an acknowledgement of human transience

’ – Cork Evening Echo

launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais

The long awaited debut collection from Zaffar Kunial

Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby where crisis and austerity meetLike 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