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Night / David Harsent.

by Harsent, David, 1942-

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Faber and Faber, 2011.

Griffin Poetry Prize.

English poetry -- 20th century.

9780571255634 (pbk.)

0571255639 (pbk.)

Ghosts -- Garden in Fading Light -- View of the House from the Back of the Garden -- Garden in Sunlight -- Garden in Dream -- Garden Hammock -- Long Walk to the End of the Garden -- Garden Goddess -- Blood Relative -- Tourist Trap -- Ballad -- Blood Heat -- Death of Cain -- Live Theatre -- Duffel Bag -- Moppet -- Vanitas -- Blood Alley -- Scene One: A Beach -- Bloodstain -- Hut in Question -- Broken Glass -- Spatchcock -- Bloodvein -- Abstracts -- Contre-jour -- Suburb -- Queen Bee Canticles -- Three Poems after Cavafy -- Night -- Necrophilia.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (International), 2012.

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