David Harsent is een Engelse dichter wiens werken zich verdiepen in de diepten van de menselijke ervaring. Zijn poëzie, gekenmerkt door een krachtige lyrische stijl en scherpzinnig inzicht, verkent thema's als herinnering, verlies en de complexiteit van menselijke relaties. Harsents onderscheidende stem en zorgvuldige vakmanschap maken hem tot een belangrijk figuur in de hedendaagse Britse literatuur.
Versions by one of Britain's best-known poets of Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the 20th century. Harsent's selection is of poems written while Ritsos was in prison or under house arrest.
It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. He is a man afflicted by personal loss, but also a man of his time, all too aware of the troubled world in which he lives.
Skin is David Harsent's visionary new collection, consisting of ten dramatic sequences of poems, which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull.