The Wound by David Harsent NHS It gives you a glimpse

It gives you a glimpse of life

/Outside was a garden gone wild

Mari Ellis Dunning

These poems are testament to the stabilising powers of love

Snapshots of another time from now

The Wound by David Harsent NHS It gives you a glimpsePublished 31st July 2025. David Harsent, in this well chosen selection of Cavafy's poems of loss and longing, brings across the clear eyed melancholy of the Greek lines into exquisite English poems, with a poet's finetuned ear: we taste the blood of a lover's wound on a bandage lifted to the lips, imbibe the heavy wine of desire; in dim rooms we ponder the tyranny of light. A. E. Stallings Versions of a great poet's work by another great poet provide