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Product details
- ISBN 9780571382569
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 160 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The ten visionary sequences that make up David Harsent's new collection operate on one another like a planetary system.
As elsewhere in Harsent's work, there are 'touchstones' - words, phrases, images and scenes - that reappear as versions of themselves, bringing a compositional depth and dramatic intensity to poems that confront raw and unpacified areas of human experience. His characters carry narratives that charge the whole with an erotic, sometimes hallucinatory energy; his staging is stark and minimal: attentive, always, to what lies beneath the skin.
David Harsent has published thirteen collections of poetry. Legion won the 2005 Forward Prize for Poetry. Night (2011), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs (2014) won the T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent collection, Loss, was published in 2020.
