David Harsent
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David Harsent (born in Devon in 1942) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist.[1]
Background
During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred on Ian Hamilton and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and imagist-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and developed a good deal since then.[citation needed]
He has published twelve 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. Night (2012) was triple short-listed for major awards in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2014. Sprinting from the Graveyard, his versions of poems written by the Bosnian poet
He lives with his wife, the actress Julia Watson, and their daughter in Barnes, London.[5]
Bibliography
- A Violent Country (1969)
- After Dark (1973)
- Truce (1973)
- Dreams of the Dead (1977)
- Mister Punch (1984)
- From an Inland Sea (1985)
- Savramena Britanska Poezija, editor with Mario Suško, (1988)
- Gawain: a libretto (1991)
- Storybook Hero (1992)
- News from the Front (1993)
- The Sorrow of Sarajevo, translations of poems by Goran Simić, illustrated by Robert McNab, (1996)
- Sprinting from the Graveyard, translations of poems by Goran Simić, (1997)
- A Bird’s Idea of Flight (1998)
- Another Round at the Pillars: A Festschrift for Ian Hamilton, editor, (1999)
- Marriage (2002)
- Raising the Iron, editor, (2004)
- Legion (2005)
- Selected Poems, 1969–2005 (2007)
- The Minotaur: a libretto (2008)
- Night (2011)
- Fire Songs (2014)
- Salt (2017)
- Loss (2020)
As David Lawrence
- The Dead Sit Round in A Ring (2002)
- Nothing Like the Night (2003)
- Cold Kill (2005)
- Down into Darkness (2007)
Prizes and awards
- 1967 Eric Gregory Award
- 1970 Art Council Writer’s Award
- 1977 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Dreams of the Dead
- 1978 Art Council Writer’s Award
- 1988 Society of Authors Travel Award
- 1998 Forward Poetry Prize(Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) for A Bird’s Idea of Flight
- 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize(shortlist) for Marriage
- 2002 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) for Marriage
- 2005 Forward Prize — Best Poetry Collection of the Year for Legion
- 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) for Legion
- 2005 Whitbread Poetry Award (shortlist) for Legion
- 2007 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) (shortlist) for The Hut in Question
- 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize (International shortlist) for Selected Poems, 1969–2005
- 2011 Costa Book Awards(Poetry), shortlist, Night
- 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize (International winner) for Night
- 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize (poetry) for Fire Songs
References
- ^ Patterson, Christina (January 2006). "Writing for Birtwistle" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 8 July 2008.
- ^ "David Harsent". Shu.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ^ "Weldon and Hensher head to Bath Spa". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 6 May 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "University of Roehampton - Acclaimed poet David Harsent appointed as Professor of Creative Writing". Roehampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ Wroe, Nicholas (21 February 2011). "David Harsent: A life in writing". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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