David Harsent

David Harsent has published eight full volumes of poetry and several limited editions. His most recent collection, Legion, won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the Whitbread Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems was published in June 2007 and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry prize.
 

Harsent’s English versions of poems written under siege in Sarajevo by the Bosnian poet Goran Simic, have been widely praised and were incorporated by Nigel Osborne into his opera Sarajevo as well as forming the basis for Radio and TV programmes.
 

His collaborations with composers (most often with Harrison Birtwistle) have been performed at ROH, the Royal Albert Hall (Proms), the Concertgebouw, The Megaron (Athens), the South Bank Centre and Carnegie Hall. His most recent collaboration with Birtwistle – The Minotaur – opened at the Royal Opera House in April, to spectacular reviews.
 

In 2005, Harsent was appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Hallam University, Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Publishers are Faber and Faber www.faber.co.uk
Agents are PFD www.pfd.co.uk  

More about David and his work
www.poetryarchive.org
www.contemporarywriters.com
Wikipedia

 

 

photo: Kitty Sullivan.

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