Night by David Harsent
Among the poems that open Night, David Harsent's follow-up to his Forward Prize-winning collection Legion, is a startling sequence about a garden - but a garden unlike any other. It sets the tone for a book in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart. The book culminates in the seductive and brilliantly sustained 'Elsewhere', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory.
David Harsent was born in Devonshire. He has published nine collections of poetry. Legion (2005) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and his Selected Poems 1969-2005 appeared in 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571255634 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571255639 |
| Title | Night |
| Author | David Harsent |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2011-01-20 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2011, Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2011 |
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