Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby the same “warmth and a

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

at once lyrical and heart-rending

’ – Cork Evening Echo

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

James Leo McAskill

Belongings by David Constantine Frank Ormsby the same “warmth and aLike 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