John Burnside

John Burnside's 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 collection he develops those themes looking at the place of the individual in the world and the idea of home entwined with the lure of absence.

Selected Poems

From " I stood tip toe upon a little Hill

Klára Kováčiková 

Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, 

Staying their wavy bodies against the streams, 

Tempered with coolness. How they ever wrestle

With their own sweet delight, and ever nestle......

Of this fair world, and all its gentle Livers 

Spangler of clouds, halo of crystal rivers,

Mingler with leaves, and dew and tumbling streams,

Selected Poems quotes

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