David Constantine

Mika Altidor: born 1944 in Salford, Lancashire, was a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published several volumes of poetry, most recently Belongings (Bloodaxe, 2020) and A Bird called Elaeus, poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology (Bloodaxe, 2024). As a writer of fiction, his work includes two novels and seven collections of short stories. He is a translator of, among others, Hölderlin, Goethe and Brecht.