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David Harsent |
| David Harsent was born in Devonshire. He has published eight collections of poetry; a Selected Poems appeared in 1989. His last collection, Marriage, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and won the the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His collaborations with the composer Harrison Birtwistle have included a libretto, Gawain (Royal Opera House) and a song cycle, The Woman and the Hare (South Bank Centre and Carnegie Hall) and they are currently working together on a new full-length opera, The Minotaur, for the Royal Opera House. David is married to the actress Julia Watson. |
| The title sequence of David Harsent’s new collection is a gathering of reports from an unnamed war-zone: a series of discrete images, voices, events, and intermittent despatches – immediate and vivid – that come together to give witness to the experience and consequences of war and conflict. In its formal mastery of the poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent’s previous collection, Marriage. |
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