Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby where crisis and austerity meet

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

How do we grieve for something no one else can ever find out

at once lyrical and heart-rending

and how they impact our everyday lives

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