Author: John Burnside

As a child, Lukes mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innat...

Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted b...

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.These are poems of thwarted love ...

A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John BurnsidePoetry helps us to make sense...

Havergey does not feature on any maps of the British Isles. Yet this remote island is as real as any, with its limestone stacks, seabirds and human...

From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched convention...

Lucid, lyrical, and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed ...

Memorable, atmospheric and compelling Times Literary SupplementLiv lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle.Her only friend is...

Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best CollectionThere are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand thems...