Selected Poems
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 a...
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 a...
