Marriage By David Harsent

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David Harsent is an English poet and TV scriptwriter Harsent also writes crime fiction novels under the pseudonyms site_link David Lawrence site_link David Pascoe and site_link Jack Curtis He has published eleven 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. Marriage ppt S Eliot and Whitbread Awards He lives with his wife the actress site_link Julia Watson and their daughter in London David Harsent is an English poet and TV scriptwriter Harsent also writes crime fiction novels under the pseudonyms site_link David Lawrence site_link David Pascoe and site_link Jack Curtis He has published eleven 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. EBook marriage counseling S Eliot and Whitbread Awards He lives with his wife the actress site_link Julia Watson and their daughter in London site_link Marriage consists of two sequences of poems The first is loosely based on the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and his muse and model who became eventually his wife It is a rich pattern for the study of the mysteries of domesticity the unspoken privacies and intimacies that can exist between two people For the painter problems of seeing become for the husband problems of knowing Marriage is an inspired portrait of conjugality exact watchful and understated The second sequence Lepus extends an interest in the hare as trickster traceable elsewhere in David Harsent s work and most recently in The Woman and the Hare a piece commissioned by the Nashe Ensemble set to music by Harrison Birtwistle and first performed at the South Bank Centre in 1999 Marriagea good long way from some of the brilliance we see in Fire Songs Marriage is much Ted Hughes and David has a great ear and I think he s very good at naturalising a conversational style in the phrasemic cadence if i had to guess Still not especially worth one s time David Harsent