David Harsent
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Selected Poems: 1969-2005
David Harsent
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 verse and offers an outstanding concentration of, and introduction to, the full range and powers of this distinguished poet.
David Harsent
The title sequence of David Harsent’s new collection offers reports from an unnamed war-zone. Throughout, various accounts of conflict accrue: a series of discrete images, voices, events, and intermittent despatches—immediate and vivid—that cohere to give witness to war and the consequences of war, and seem to lock the reader into the crisis along with the protagonists. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent’s previous collection, Marriage.
