Burnside John - Selected Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Selected Poems
Author(s): Burnside John
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Barcode: 9780224078030
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 3/2/2006
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets