Selected Poems - John Burnside

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.In this Selected Poems, his territory is the no-man's-land of threshold and margin, the charmed half-light of the liminal, a domestic world threaded through with mystery, myth and longing.We can see themes emerge and develop within the growing confidence of Burnside's sinuous lyric poise: the place of the individual in... Zobrazit více