The Empire of Forgetting

Beschreibung

A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets<BR><BR>'It's impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL<BR><BR>John Burnside's last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme - mortality - and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting and the seven ages.<BR><BR>Here, as always, there is a clear-eyed curiosity; a sense of wonder at the beleaguered natural world and its endless mutability - its hidden beauty, often suddenly disclosed - and a deep faith in its old gods.

Burnside was always as much a spirit-guide as a poet, and here, in the Empire of Forgetting, we are never far from a fresh alertness to the world, to epiphany - a sudden, spiritual manifestation.<BR><BR>There is a sense, too, in these last poems, of a man having found a 'dwelling place' - a sense of rest and peace and settlement with the world. A state of grace.<BR><BR>'Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched' ANDREW O'HAGAN<BR><BR>'A titan of literature' KATHLEEN JAMIE

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