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`a tour de force of luminal expression... Burnside is not a wispily ethereal poet. A stretch of country crossed during the hunt is captured in oils, not in thin watercolours... precious togetherness is then consolidated movingly in several powerful poems in this collection's final pages... poignantly luminous' --Guardian
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Winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry 2011 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a very good book indeed. No one else writes quite like John Burnside and every poem bears the stamp of his unique style - conjuring up strange yet familiar landscapes and emotional states using deceptively simple language and poetic structures. What perhaps makes this collection special is the way that there are blended echoes of influences as diverse as Robert Frost and Edward Thomas and American Blues singers like Charlie Patten - all in the same poems. Highlights for me are the long opening sequence - an evocative chase through mythical forest and farmland - and a moving exploration of the meaning of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a book written by a brilliant author at the height of his powers. John Burnside deservedly won the T.S. Eliot Memorial Prize for this volume. Its range is large and disturbing. It encapsulates a world both ancient and disturbingly modern. I had high hopes of it when I read the initial reviews, but it far exceeded those: it is both profound in its subject matter and adept in its poetics. I have not bought a book of poetry so adroit since Seamus Heaney's "Seeing Things".
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Burnside is a poet at the height of his powers.
I have most of his work stretching over the last20 years or so, which means I was on the lookout for his new publication. I was not disappointed. I found the opening long poem about a hunted animal and a hunter both though provoking and poignant. He has an ability to create a rural landscape which is founded in reality but moves easily into a profounder realisation
of the possibilities that might lie beyond the surface.
These conserns permeate the rest of the shorter poems in the book.
I finished it with a great deal of satisfaction and will reread soon to explore his vision more deeply
I have most of his work stretching over the last20 years or so, which means I was on the lookout for his new publication. I was not disappointed. I found the opening long poem about a hunted animal and a hunter both though provoking and poignant. He has an ability to create a rural landscape which is founded in reality but moves easily into a profounder realisation
of the possibilities that might lie beyond the surface.
These conserns permeate the rest of the shorter poems in the book.
I finished it with a great deal of satisfaction and will reread soon to explore his vision more deeply
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Inspiring and elegant
Beautiful story poems, vividly in touch with the natural world and with inner human spaces. They are sparse but elegant and, using a minimum of words, highly descriptive - like... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Steelo
A special collection.
worthy winner of the forward prize.
Well balanced collection that has been a pleasure to read over the last week or so.
Well balanced collection that has been a pleasure to read over the last week or so.
Published 7 months ago by Cornish
Wonderful
Wonderful!!! I've yet to be dissapointed by a Burnside poetry collection and this is a worthy winner of the Forward prize.
Published 7 months ago by Walkabout
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