Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith ’ – Bruce Smith

’ – Bruce Smith

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These double translations

'A sweet tale rendered in swirly black calligraphy and watercolour

Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith ’ – Bruce SmithAmong 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