Ambushed by a discreetly disconcerting poet

Fire Songs By David Harsent Faber & Faber, €16.35

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**Fire Songs**

By David Harsent Faber & Faber, €16.35

There are poets who provide comfort and closure, whose work has the effect of wrestling meaning from chaos; of closing circles and attempting to garner some sense of conclusion to the life journeys that we are embarked on. They possess a virtue or a facility which allows them to be comforting presences in their eras; they produce the solace which Queen Victoria found when ...