News from the Front (Oxford Poets) 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. Kindle News from the frontier 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. News from the frontcam S Eliot and Whitbread Awards He lives with his wife the actress site_link Julia Watson and their daughter in London site_link In a telling drama of separation David Harsent s News From The Front is a brilliant sequence that uses the voices of several characters to tell the story of a man who has been separated by war from his common law wife The poems focus on the powerful emotion elicited by his wife who givesbirth to his son while he is away Hoping that he can one day share his experiences with his son he sends letters home and keeps a journal containing in part a bestiary The woman has such powerful desire that she is at times able to bring the man almost within her reach their son sees thestrength of his mother and begins to view his absent father as a hero News from the Front Oxford Poets