Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith so the book's leitmotif is

so the book's leitmotif is one that stresses the distance between words and worlds – and the way poetry is a language beyond language which we can sometimes only grasp through sound

’ – Bruce Smith

memory and desire – and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted

post-modern perspective

'A sweet tale rendered in swirly black calligraphy and watercolour

Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith so the book's leitmotif isAmong 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