Summary
Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This is territory that Burnside has made his own- a domestic world threaded through with myth and longing, beyond which lies a no man’s land - the ‘somewhere in between’ - of dusk or dawn, of mists or sudden light, where the epiphanies are.
Using the framework of four long poems, ‘Port…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224090056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224090054 |
| Author: | John Burnside |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 133mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
“If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry–it is here, in Burnside’s singular music.” -Observer
If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside’s singular music – Adam Thorpe * Observer *A poet of rare and extraordinary talent – Michael Bracewell * Independent *Lyrical beauty, emotional charge and unforced clarity of form… His poems are acts of revelation * Scotsman *Burnside has a stillness and emotional restraint, a respect for the observer and observed alike which is serious, exemplary and rare * Times Literary Supplement *Burnside’s vision is of another, sacred, fragile world that co-exists with our own dailiness: his gift is the ability, through poems of a rare and exquisite precision of language, to let his reader glimpse it – Elizabeth Burns * Scotsman *
About The Author
John Burnside
John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024.
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