David Constantine

Who is David Constantine?

David John Constantine is a British, Lancashire born poet, author and translator.

Constantine is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University, and a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford. He was until recently the co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation. Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, he is commissioning editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the TS Eliot Prize.

His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet.

He is also author of one novel, Davies and Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He has published four collections of short stories, Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam and The Shieling and the award winning Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford with his wife Helen.