Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith then and now

then and now

memory and desire – and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted

but as an aura saturating what is described

The earlier poems appeared in Ground Signs (Flarestack Poets

excavating the most exquisite of poems

Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith then and nowAmong 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