Rose with Harm

Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry

Shortlisted The Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize 2021

Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty’s deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships just beginning, gone astray, turned wrong, or fading from view. The reader is on tour through love’s phantasy, a parade of fragments in lost rooms all set within time slips that draw us back and forth across countries and continents - and in dreams that rise and coalesce around absence. Written over a decade, these tightly-accomplished lyrics will delight those familiar with Hardisty’s writing and find a wide new readership for those yet to discover this important new writer.