The Wound

Harsent, David (Author)/ Cavafy, C.V. (Author)

ISBN 10: 1915968119 / ISBN 13: 9781915968111

Edité par Dare-Gale Press, 2025

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• Titre: The Wound
• Éditeur: Dare-Gale Press
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1915968119
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781915968111
• Reliure: pamphlet
• État de l'article: Brand New
• Poids: 0,1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

‘Versions of a great poet’s work by another great poet provide fascinating examples of exchange, cross-over, transposition, modulation, sensitive homage and daring challenge. In Harsent’s Cavafy, erotic loss and memory are pin-point sharp, while their expression is taut and thrillingly condensed. In the “dark depth” of these lines we sense a Cavafy even closer to our own times, a voice lightly and convincingly interpreted, a vision to be pondered, savoured and enjoyed.’

John Kittmer

‘The many readers who have found their way into Yannis Ritsos’ poetry through David Harsent’s acclaimed recreations will now find kindred qualities in this sequence made out of Cavafy. The Greek poet’s obsession with love and loss has tended to come across somewhat insipidly in English versions: Harsent’s inject a new and salutary note of bleakness.’

David Ricks

À propos de l?auteur

David Harsent is an acclaimed poet, librettist, novelist and script writer. His other works for Dare-Gale press include Of Certain Angels (2022). In 2014 he won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Fire Songs. In 2012 he was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize for Night. In 2005 he received the Forward Prize for Legion. Recent collections include Salt (Faber, 2017), Loss (Faber, 2020) and Homeland: Eighteen Bitter Songs: Versions of Yannis Ritsos (Rack Press, 2021).

He has written a number of operas in collaboration with composer Harrison Birtwhistle, including Gawain, The Minotaur, The Cure and The Corridor. They have been performed at opera houses around the world including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Carnegie Hall. His collaborations with Birtwhistle include the song cycles The Woman and the Hare and Songs from the Same Earth.