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David Harsent

David Harsent’s Selected Poems have been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. The Minotaur, his opera with Harrison Birtwistle, has just opened at the Royal Opera House.

Selected bibliography

  • Legion (2005)
  • Marriage (2002)
  • Another Round at the Pillars: A Festschrift for Ian Hamilton (editor) (1999)
  • A Bird’s Idea of Flight (1998)
  • News from the Front (1993)
  • Selected Poems (1989)
  • From an Inland Sea (1985)
  • Mister Punch (1984)
  • Dreams of the Dead (1977)
  • After Dark (1973)
  • Truce (1973)
  • A Violent Country (1969)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Poem: ‘Rota Fortuna’ · 24 April 2008

subscriber-only content Two Poems · 22 June 2006

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Three Poems from ‘Marriage’ · 26 November 1998

 not available in archive Poem: ‘By Sennen’ · 4 June 1998