Black Cat Bone
John Burnside''s remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.
These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, ''eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood''; poems that recognise ''we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us''; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to...
John Burnside''s remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.
These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, ''eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood''; poems that recognise ''we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why/they fail to love us''; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to...
