The Zebra Stood in the Night Author:Kerry Hardie Human life, the passage and rhythms of time, and the seasons come together in The Zebra Stood in the Night, the seventh collection by one of Ireland's leading poets. Grounded in the natural world, this is a book about landscape, loss, belonging, and transformation. As everything in nature grows and decays, so `everyone is always inside the act o... more »f dying at the same time as being inside the act of living,' Hardie writes in her essay `Aftermath,' a meditation on grief which precedes a sequence of poems on the death of her brother in India.« less