David Harsent's most recent collection, A Bird's Idea of Flight, was short-listed for the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize. His sequence in progress, Marriage, is a loose interpretation of the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and Marthe de Meligny. A recent collaboration with Harrison Birtwhistle resulted in a song cycle, The Woman and the Hare, commissioned by the Nash Ensemble, to be performed in March 1999.

David Harsent's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.