Selected Poems

by John Burnside

Book Overview

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. 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.

In this Selected Poems we can see themes emerge and develop within the growing confidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0224078038
• ISBN13: 9780224078030
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.6"