Fire Songs is a collection of poetry written by English poet David Harsent that uses multiple themes to display a greater meaning.
Fire Songs, according to Fiona Sampson, a British poet and a judge for the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize, teems with images and ideas that manage to be both richly detailed and vividly musical.
[5] "Fire: love songs and descants", according to The Guardian reviewer Adam Newey, has a "hellish for-its-own-sake purity, which is nonetheless impressive and mesmerizing", and like the Askew group includes a bonfire to introduce the poem's subject matter.
He added that it "delivers a stream of feverish, oneiric visions, of apocalypse brought about through war or environmental catastrophe or the boundless human capacity for self‑deception and bedevilment".
[6] According to Helen Dunmore, a British poet and the chair of judges that awarded Harsent the T. S. Eliot Prize, "Fire Songs plumbs language and emotion with technical brilliance and prophetic power".