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David Harsent (born in Devon in 1942) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist.
David Harsent. David Harsent has published twelve volumes of poetry, most recently Salt (2017), Fire Songs (2014), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Night (2011), which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize, all from Faber & Faber.
Fire Songs review – David Harsent’s apocalyptic collection. A feverish collection of ecstatic visions, biblical symbols and everywhere a lick of flame. Adam Newey. Fri 2 Jan 2015 11.00 EST ...
David Harsent has described himself as ‘not a public poet’, and his career as a poet has involved a slow rise to prominence over the course of several decades. Yet his Forward Poetry Prize-winning collection Legion (2005) is an imaginatively free treatment of that most public of themes, war.
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Dec 2, 2017 · The author on dreaming white landscapes, the dangers of Lycra-clad cyclists and why it’s faster to write a libretto than poetry. David Harsent. Sat 2 Dec 2017 05.00 EST. W hat I have to hand...
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Mar 17, 2020 · Tue 17 Mar 2020 05.00 EDT. T his is a long watch of a poem, a tormented vigil. You want to ask, “Who’s there?” – a question you might, like the guard in Hamlet ’s opening scene, call out in the...
Biography. David Harsent (b. 1942) won the 2005 Forward Prize for Legion, which was also shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the TS Eliot Award; he has also been the recipient of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, an Eric Gregory Award, two Arts Council bursaries and a Society of Authors Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of ...
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