Driftwork
Selected Poems
$34.83
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2026
Summary
The definitive selection of John Burnside’s extraordinary and vibrant poems, from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
This selection spans decades of Burnside’s work, offering poems that are always stirring, curious, and alert to the natural world and the people in it.
“It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside.” - GUARDIAN
Over thirty-five years and seventeen collections, John Burnside built a body of poetry that was consistently luminous,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336667 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336662 |
| Author: | John Burnside |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 139mm x 206mm |
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Critics Review
It’s clear from the start that he [Burnside] was attuned to some ungraspable essence shimmering beyond the fields, kitchens and suburban streets of everyday life. His haunting, mysterious poems repay many re-readings * Financial Times *
Driftwork reminds us that John Burnside was as prolific a poet as he was astonishing. Three decades produced 16 extraordinary collections, of which this Selected Poems offers a generous overview – Fiona Sampson * Tablet *
Wonderful, and beautifully edited… The book is elegantly compiled… [Burnside’s] work is a constant struggle against the unspeakable, the unsayable, the tip of the tongue-ness of thing * Scotsman *
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 Prize, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, and, in 2023, the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011, Black Cat Bone won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry. He died in 2024.
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