Faber & Faber

Night: David Harsent

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Synopsis:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BEST POETRY AWARD.

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.

Options:

• Audio snippet: 'The Garden in Sunlight'
• Audio snippet: 'A View of the House from the Back of the Garden'
• Audio snippet: 'Ghosts'
• Audio snippet: 'Spatchcock'
• Audio snippet: 'At the Tobacconist's Window (from Three Poems After Cavafy)'

Tags:

Categorised as:

Poetry

Sub-categories:

Poetry Collections

Genres & Themes:

Dreams; Memory; Nightmares

Awards & Prizes:

T.S. Eliot Prize - Shortlist 2011; Forward Best Collection - Shortlist 2011; Griffin Poetry Prize - Shortlist 2012