Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby The exploration of memory is

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

at once lyrical and heart-rending

she rejects pressure towards achievement and longs to return to the sensual world of the earth

the same “warmth and a reassurance … in the correspondence itself

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

Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby The exploration of memory isLike 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