Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith 'A sweet tale rendered in

'A sweet tale rendered in swirly black calligraphy and watercolour

compassionately

telling the inside story of the protests they led in the ‘90s to reclaim their bodies as their own – their difficult balance between survival and self-expression

These double translations

excavating the most exquisite of poems

Night by David Harsent Rachel Smith 'A sweet tale rendered inAmong 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