The Dressing-Up Box

About David Constantine

Born in Salford David Constantine has published several volumes of poetry with Bloodaxe (including Collected Poems (2004) Nine Fathom Deep (2009) Elder (2014) and Belongings (2020)) as well as two novels (most recently The Life-Writer with Comma) and five collections of short fiction: Back at the Spike (1994) the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (Comma 2005) The Shieling (Comma 2009) Tea at the Midland (Comma 2012) which won the Frank OConnor International Short Story Award in 2013 and The Dressing-Up Box (Comma 2019) as well as In Another County: Selected Stories (Comma 2015). Davids story Tea at the Midland won the 2010 National Short Story Award and his story In Another Country was adapted into 45 Years an Oscar-nominated film directed by Andrew Haigh and starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. With his wife Helen David edited Modern Poetry in Translation for many years. He is also translator of Hölderlin Brecht Goethe Kleist Michaux and Jaccottet. He is the winner of the Queen's Medal for Poetry 2020. He lives in Oxford.