Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith post-modern perspective

post-modern perspective

’ – Bruce Smith

'A sweet tale rendered in swirly black calligraphy and watercolour

so the book's leitmotif is one that stresses the distance between words and worlds – and the way poetry is a language beyond language which we can sometimes only grasp through sound

excavating the most exquisite of poems

Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith post-modern perspectiveAmong 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