Six Poems
My eldest son rolls over in his sleep
and, like an actor mid-soliloquy,
he murmurs, “Nothing—”
John Burnside
John Burnside
John Burnside has published five books of fiction and nine collections of poetry, of which the most recent is The Good Neighbour (Cape, 2005). He teaches at the University of St. Andrews. He lives on the coast of Fife and is currently writing a memoir.
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Poem: The Listener
John Burnside’s poems evoke the other world—whatever it might be. The poems are at once lyrical and meditative, their seemingly ordinary declarations cross-stitched with spookiness; the result is a kind of vivid, autumnal intensity. We liked this…