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Perhaps forgiveness is possible after all. Hankering embarrassedly after the numinous, exiled and adrift amid a flotsam of things that seem to have gone wrong, the people in Harry Smart's poems occasionally stumble across a sort of grace.

(Paperback, Main)

Pierrot, Harry Smart's first volume of poetry, might have been written to defy encapsulation. Its subjects range from the seascape of Montrose to an imagined meditation of Dante at Birkenau, and its tones from pure lyricism to the forensic, from elegy to the laconic menace of a speaker spoiling for trouble.