In a series of momentary and abruptly discontinuous images, laconic despatches from a warzone, a fictional testimony begins to take shape - an array of different voices giving witness to war and the consequences of war. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent's previous collection, Marriage.

Legion

Literature & Fiction

David Harsent

Poetry

Faber&Faber

In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from A Violent County in 1969, to Legion, winner of the Forward Prize in 2005. This selection, made by the author himself, draws upon the full arc of his career and offers an outstanding concentration of, and introduction to, the full range and powers of this distinguished poet.

Selected Poems 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.

Night

Loss

Fire Songs

Skin

Ashbridge

Sycamore P

<p>"For his sixtieth birthday friends of the distinguished poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton, have gathered to offer an international festschrift to honour his writings and the remarkable influence he has exerted on his generation." "The result is an unrivalled portrait of literary London for the last thirty years, a Who's Who? of Britain's best poets, novelists, and playwrights resulting in a unique document filled with wit and humour ... a must."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

Another round at the pillars: Essays, poems & reflections on Ian Hamilton

Blake Morrison

ian-mcewan

Michael Hofmann

Peter Dale

Hugo Williams

CRAIG RAINE

Colin Falck

Drew Motion

Karl Miller

Dan Jacobson Clive

Simon Gray

Alan Jenkins

Julian. Barnes

Cargo

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