Fire Songs, by David Harsent
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The poems in David Harsent's new collection, whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Throughout the book - in the stark biography of 'Songs from the Same Earth', the troubling disconnects of 'A Dream Book', the harrowing lines of connection in four poems each titled 'Fire', or the cheek-by-jowl shudder of 'Sang the Rat' - Harsent writes, as always, with passion and a sureness of touch.
Fire Songs, by David Harsent- Amazon Sales Rank: #1366350 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-08-05
- Released on: 2014-08-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author David Harsent has published ten collections of poetry. The most recent, Night (2011), was a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T. S. Eliot poetry prizes and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A stunning poetry collection By Glynn Young I recently read "I Knew the Bride" by Hugo Williams, shortlisted but not the winner of the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize of the Poetry Book Society, founded in 1953 by T.S. Eliot and friends. I was so taken with Williams’ poems that I wondered just how good the winner was.So I read it: "Fire Songs: by David Harsent.It begins with what is undoubtedly a fire song – “Fire: a song for Mistress Askew” – a rather graphic account of a woman being burned at the stake, with enough Old English lines worked in to add an air of historic reality. (As it turns out, Mistress Anne Askew, a Protestant poet, was arrested several times, found guilty of heresy and, after torture in the Tower of London, burned at the stake in 1546. She was 26.You read Harsent’s poem, and you suffer alongside Mistress Askew. And it is a long poem.The poetry in this collection, his eleventh, is vivid, startling, and engaging. At some points he seems to be speaking a new kind of language, one filled with such sharp images that it almost leaves you breathless.This is poetry about England and its history, and poetry about England and its contemporary state – especially its state of the environment.“Bowland Beth” is a poem about a bird, a hen harrier, and was commissioned for The Sparrowhawk’s Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey Are Faring by David Cobham. The hen harrier is the focus of a bird breeding project in the Bowland Forest in Lancashire in northwestern England. Read it for the beauty of Harsent’s words, and the harsh reality of what he’s describing.Bowland BethThat she made shapes in airThat she saw the world as patterns and lightmoorland to bare mountain drawn by instinctThat she’d arrive at the corner of your eyethe ghost of herself going silent into the windThat the music of her slipstreamwas a whisper drone tagged to wingtipsThat weather was a kind of raptureThat her only dream was of flight forgivenmoment by moment as she dreamed itThat her low drift over heather quartering home groundmight bring anyone to tearsThat she would open her prey in all innocencethere being nothing of anger or sorrow in itThat her beauty was prefiguredThat her skydance went for nothinghanging fire on plain airThat her name is meaninglessyour mouth empty of it mind empty of itThat the gunshot was another sound amid birdcalla judder if you had seen it her line of flight brokenThat she went miles before she bled outIn his acknowledgements, Harsten says “the hen harrier is on the verge of extinction in England thanks to systematic, gleeful, illegal persecution: hen harriers take grouse. Bowland Beth was killed before she could breed.”Every poem in the collection is just as arresting, whether it’s about describing the travels of a rat as a kind of social commentary (“Sang the Rat”), poems that use tinnitus (that “white noise” sound you hear in your ear as you age) as a metaphor, or the poem entitled “Icefield” that uses words like cold knives.In short, "Fire Songs" is simply stunning.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful. W.I.M.P. (White Important Male Poet) By Edward Ferrari I’m not going to buy this book for myself simply because I can’t imagine myself, from this sample, enjoying it in any real way. That isn’t to say I wouldn’t enjoy it in lots of superficial, dead useless ways, I might—oh god—be interested to see, etc. And that’s it, isn’t it? I might be interested, but something tells me I wouldn’t derive enough pleasure to keep me going till lunchtime.http://www.r-o-y.org/2015/03/poetry-sampler-1-david-harsent-fire.html
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