Empire of Forgetting
The posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets, a powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty.
''A master of language'' HILARY MANTEL
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, forge...
The posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets, a powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty.
''A master of language'' HILARY MANTEL
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, forge...
