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John Burnside

The Asylum Dance

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Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 2000 - 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 shown the homing instinct - felt in the blood and marrow - as a pull to re… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-224-09005-6
  • EAN: 9780224090056
  • Produktnummer: 17610734
  • Verlag: Random House UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 96 S.
  • Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.2 cm x D0.9 cm 136 g
  • Gewicht: 136

Über den Autor


John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011, Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. A judge for the Booker prize in 2015, he is a professor in the School of English at Saint Andrews University.

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