Belongings by David Constantine Robert Crawford and what this reveals about

and what this reveals about our common human capacities to indulge grandiose visions

original voice well worth listening to

At a time when historians

This in turn links the poem to related issues such as migration and the refugee crisis

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Belongings by David Constantine Robert Crawford and what this reveals aboutLike 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