David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet and translator. His poetry collections include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts (short-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize), Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. In 2003, his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Lighter than Air won the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. He is also author of one novel, Davies, as well as the biography Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He lives in Oxford where, until 2012, he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.

In Another Country

In Another Country brings together 17 of David Constantine’s most unforgettable stories, gathered from over four books and spanning two decades. These are stories of characters delicately caught in moments of defiance, whether in the face of intolerable everyday pressures. They will shock readers with their emotional range and power and immediately establish their author as among our greatest fiction masters.

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