Elder - Couverture souple

Constantine, David J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780370989 ISBN 13 : 9781780370989

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2020

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 this 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.

David Constantine won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2020 for his eleven books of poetry, in particular his Collected Poems, published in 2004, which spans three decades of his work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Constantine was born in 1944 in Salford, Lancashire. He read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and lectured in German at Durham from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford from 1981 to 2000. He is a freelance writer and translator, a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, and was co-editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004 to 2013. He lives in Oxford and on Scilly.

He has published eleven books of poetry, five translations and a novel with Bloodaxe. His poetry titles include Something for the Ghosts (2002), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Collected Poems (2004), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Nine Fathom Deep (2009); Elder (2014); and Belongings (2020). He won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2020 for his eleven books of poetry, in particular his 2004 Collected Poems.

His Bloodaxe translations include editions of Henri Michaux and Philippe Jaccottet; his Selected Poems of Hoelderlin, winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, and his version of Hoelderlin's Sophocles, these to be combined in a new expanded Hoelderlin edition, Selected Poetry (2018); and his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Lighter Than Air, winner of the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. His other books include A Living Language: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures (2004), his translation of Goethe's Faust in Penguin Classics (2005, 2009), his monograph Poetry (2013) in Oxford University Press's series The Literary Agenda, and his co-translation (with Tom Kuhn) of The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (W.W. Norton, 2018).

He has published six collections of short stories, and won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2013 for his collection Tea at the Midland (Comma Press), and is the first English writer to win this prestigious international fiction award. Four other short story collections, Under the Dam (2005), The Shieling (2009), In Another Country: Selected Stories (2015) and The Dressing-Up Box (2019), and his second novel, The Life-Writer(2015), are published by Comma Press. His story 'Tea at the Midland' won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2010, while 'In Another Country' was adapted into 45 Years, a major film starring Tom Courtney and Charlotte Rampling.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780370989
• ISBN 13: 9781780370989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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