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EPISODE · Jan 14, 2015 · 1 MIN

David Harsent | Armistice

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The poems in David Harsent's new collection Fire Songs (winner of the 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry), whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Here is David Harsent reading one of the poems from the collection, 'Armistice.'

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The poems in David Harsent's new collection Fire Songs (winner of the 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry), whether single poems, dramatic sequences, or poems that 'belong to one another', share a dark territory and a sometimes haunting, sometimes steely, lyrical tone. Here is David Harsent reading one of the poems from the collection, 'Armistice.'

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