Legion
by David Harsent
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The title-sequence of David Harsent's new collection of poems, Legion, offers a report from an unnamed war, in which various images of conflict accrue without cohering, as if the reader is locked inside the crisis together with the protagonists. In a series of momentary and abruptly discontinuous images, laconic despatches from a war-zone, a fictional testimony begins to take shape - an array of different voices giving witness to war and the consequences of war. In its formal mastery of the show more poetic sequence, Legion is a distinguished successor to David Harsent's previous collection, Marriage. show lessTags
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Didn't get on with this very well. struggled to read it. whether that was me or the work, who knows?
it was certainly interesting...
it was certainly interesting...
Best contemporary poetry I have read.
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