Night by David Harsent Luljeta Lleshanaku They are filled with pop-cultural

They are filled with pop-cultural references and registers

“A rare book – both strange and exhilarating

But not impossible

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And the everyday mysteries

Night by David Harsent Luljeta Lleshanaku They are filled with pop-culturalAmong 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