NIGHT by David Harsent ( 9780571255634 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

NIGHT

By:

David Harsent

Format:

Paperback

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£10.99

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£8.02

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£2.97

ISBN 10:

0571255639

ISBN 13:

9780571255634

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Publisher:

FABER & FABER

Pub. date:

20 January, 2011

Pages:

112

Description:

A work 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.

Synopsis:

Among 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 seductive and brilliantly-sustained 'Elsewhere', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory.

Publication:

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Prizes:

Short-listed for Costa Poetry Award 2011 Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2011

Returns:

Returnable

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A BIRD'S IDEA OF FLIGHT (PB)

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