Selected Poems - Cape Poetry

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 the world, the idea of dwelling, of home, within that community, and the lure of absence and escape set against the possibilities of renewal and continuity.

This is consummate, immaculate work born out of a lean and agile craftsmanship, profound philosophical thought and a haunted, haunting imagination; the result is a poetry that makes intimate, resonant, exquisite music.

Book information

ISBN: 9780224078030
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.914
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 111
Weight: 136g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 12mm