
The Empire of Forgetting
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'It's impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIAN
'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL
John Burnside's last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme - mortality - and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting and the seven ages.
Here, as always, there is a clear-eyed curiosity; a sense of wonder at the beleaguered natural world and its endless mutability - its hidden beauty, often suddenly disclosed - and a deep faith in its old gods. Burnside was always as much a spirit-guide as a poet, and here, in the Empire of Forgetting, we are never far from a fresh alertness to the world, to epiphany - a sudden, spiritual manifestation.
There is a sense, too, in these last poems, of a man having found a 'dwelling place' - a sense of rest and peace and settlement with the world. A state of grace.
'Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched' ANDREW O'HAGAN
'A titan of literature' KATHLEEN JAMIE
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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 -- Sean Hewitt * Guardian * In a few lines [of Burnside], are the qualities that so move me in his prose: the confluence of solitude and communion; the pain and solace of a ravaged but persistent physical landscape. Burnside's life was dedicated to its ruthless excavation and enshrinement -- Megan Nolan * Observer * [In] The Empire of Forgetting...there are meditations on nature, faith...and death to give deep pleasure to poetry readers * Oldie, *Christmas Gift Guide 2025* * The Empire of Forgetting has a power and subtlety as striking as anything in his [Burnside's] expansive oeuvre * Times Literary Supplement *More details
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