A new sequence of startling, haunting poems by award-winning poet David Harsent. These are no guardian angels. They are dangerous, feral. They arrive uninvited, unrefusable and each visceral encounter demands an existential reckoning, an unflinching honesty. They are love's arbiters, though themselves loveless.

About the Author
David Harsent is an acclaimed poet, librettist, novelist and script writer. In 2014 he won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Fire Songs. In 2012 he was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize for Night. In 2005 he received the Forward Prize for Legion. Recent collections include Salt (Faber, 2017), Loss (Faber, 2020) and Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs: Versions of Yannis Ritsos (Rack Press, 2021). He has written a number of operas in collaboration with composer Harrison Birtwhistle, including Gawain, The Minotaur, The Cure and The Corridor. They have been performed at opera houses around the world including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Carnegie Hall. His collaborations with Birtwhistle include the song cycles The Woman and the Hare and Songs from the Same Earth.

Awards
Winner of Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 2005 and T.S. Eliot Prize 2014 and Griffin International Poetry Prize 2012.



Book Information
ISBN 9780993331176
Author David Harsent
Page Count 22
Imprint Dare-Gale Press
Publisher Dare-Gale Press
Weight(grams) 55g