Book description
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.
