a poetry reading by david constantine
- When?
- Monday 6 February 2012, 18.30 to 19.30
- Where?
- Griffiths Lecture Theatre, Lecture Theatre Block
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Admission price:
- £5 full, £2.50 students, concessions
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
Freelance writer, poet and translator, David Constantine was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1944.
He is a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. His poetry books include Watching for Dolphins (1983), winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, Selected Poems (1991), Caspar Hauser (1994), The Pelt of Wasps (1998) and Something for the Ghosts (2002). His translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's selected Poems (1990, revised 1996), winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize. He is currently working on a translation of Goethe's Faust for Penguin Classics, Part 1 of which was published in 2004. His novel Davies (1985) won the Southern Arts Literature Prize and his non-fiction book, Early Greek Travellers and the Hellenic Ideal (1984), won the 1986 Runciman Award. He is also co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation, and author of the collection of short stories Under the Dam (2005).
David Constantine live in Oxford. His Collected Poems was published in 2004. His latest books are the collection of poetry, Nine Fathom Deep (2009) and a second short story collection, The Shieling (2009). In 2010, The Shieling was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and his short Story Tea at the Midland won the BBC National Short Story Award.