For over forty years he has shaped a body of work that stands in comparison with that of any of his contemporaries, not just at home but internationally, navigating and negotiating that space between everyday events and their metaphysical or spiritual “otherness”.’ - Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, on behalf of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Committee ‘Above all, David Constantine is a “humane” poet – a word often used in connection with his work, as if in noticing and detailing the ways of the world he is doing so on behalf of all that is best in us. Nine Fathom Deep shows how all personal life and all poetry written from it deal with the realities of social and political life in the here and now, assert themselves, fight for survival, and actively seek to make a world in which humane self-realisation would be more and more, not less and less, possible. Throughout these poems, the personal life, with its own joys and suffering, asserts itself against a world whose characteristic forces are dispiriting and destructive. In his title-poem – which illuminates the themes of the whole book – the lovers are a utopian answering back against the curse (following a crime against Nature) that is carried by the ship passing above them. Like the work of the European poets who have nourished him, David Constantine’s poetry is informed by a profoundly humane vision of the world. For devastating secrets and a power an ancient civilization could not contain have been cast out into a modern day - and they will forever alter a world racing toward its own destruction.Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2020 Now, aboard his oceangoing exploration ship,?ÿDeep Fathom,?ÿKirkland is on a desperate mission that is leading him to an earth-shattering discovery miles below the oceans surface. on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse. And in the midst of chaos, Air Force One and Americas president have vanished from the skies.Įx-Navy Seal Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning - and the U.S. The death toll rises at an unimaginable rate. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. The millenniums first eclipse of the sun cast a shroud over the Earth.
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