The Empire of Forgetting
$30.40
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2025
Summary
The Empire of Forgetting: Poems on Mortality and Grace
John Burnside’s last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme - mortality - to create a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting, and the seven ages.
A powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets.
John Burnside’s last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme - mortality -…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787334557 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787334554 |
| Author: | John Burnside |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 6mm |
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Critics Review
It’s our great good fortune…that Burnside’s closing work is also one of his finest… It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside, and impossible not to be more scared and saddened while doing so. He was the ideal laureate of our age * Guardian *An elegiac evensong of a book, The Empire of Forgetting is Burnside’s last collection, and is a resonant demonstration of his lasting power – Seán Hewitt * Guardian *
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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