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24%OFFJohn Burnside - The Asylum Dance - 9780224090056 - V9780224090056
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The Asylum Dance

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Description for The Asylum Dance Paperback. Using the framework of four long poems, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', this title balances presence with absence; we are shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to refuge, simplicity, and a safe haven, while at the same time hearing the siren call from the world beyond. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 129.

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, 'Ports', 'Settlements', 'Fields' and 'Roads', the poet balances presence with absence; we are ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224090056
SKU
V9780224090056
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About John Burnside
Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black ... Read more

Reviews for The Asylum Dance
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Asylum Dance


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