The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025
Dennis Casling there are three sections ('Spelling'

there are three sections ('Spelling'

moving and honest depictions of the Twyford protests explore the ways in which language reaches us

Among the personae of the collection is the obliging father who volunteers to be buried by his children up to the neck in sand within sight of but some distance from  the 'cold shadow of the mountain'

 Chameleon | Nachtroer sets the two books afloat in English

It will also speak to us when nothing seems to be happening

The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025</b><br> Dennis Casling there are three sections ('Spelling'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