Learning to Sleep by John Burnside

Lucid lyrical and intellectually profound this collection of poems resonates with real life and death but mostly what falls in between the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep John Burnsides first collection of poetry in four years from the authors mother commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy to the poet Arthur Rimbaud who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign of belonging. Throughout the book the powers and domin Paperback softback