Loss

by David Harsent

The new collection of poetry from David Harsent.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2020

About the author

David Harsent is an English poet and TV scriptwriter. Harsent also writes crime fiction novels under the pseudonyms David Lawrence, David Pascoe and Jack Curtis. He has published eleven collections of poetry which have won several literary prizes and awards. Legion won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards.

He lives with his wife, the actress Julia Watson and their daughter in London.

Reviews

[Mark Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a book of poetry this is.Loss.Loss of sleep for sure, a description of nightmares for our times.Not loss of feeling though, vivid in its language.Couldn't put it down, took my time with it.I don't profess to understanding everything but the imagery and the feeling is stark and beautiful and quite brilliant.Thoroughly recommended.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm sorry to say it reminded me of what I used to think reading poetry was like, before I got into reading poetry, in that there were nice moments, but most of the time I had no idea what was going on, and that really limited my ability to engage with it. Maybe I'm not clever/sophisticated/highbrow enough to 'get it', or maybe if I read it again in 20 years that'll be a very different experience, but this time I'm afraid I waded through it a bit.

[Samuel Luther · Rating 4 out of 5]

some pretty solid lines. delicious on the tongue. has the tendency to be laboured/verbose at parts. but overall, it has a melancholic mood, though i’m not sure if it always links to loss…