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The Empire of Forgetting
JOHN BURNSIDE
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Summary
'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… He now leaves behind a body of work that will only grow stronger as new generations discover it’ ANDREW O'HAGAN
‘A titan of literature…. His passing leaves a gap not only in our literature, but in our ability to exist in the world. He increased the possible ways of our being' KATHLEEN JAMIE
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Price:
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$27.99
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Category:
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Author:
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JOHN BURNSIDE
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Title:
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The Empire of Forgetting
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Release date:
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30 September 2025
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Editor:
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JONATHAN CAPE
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Pages:
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64
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Subject:
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POESIE-AUTRE
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ISBN:
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9781787334557 (1787334554)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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21595319
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Item nb:
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4451200
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The Empire of Forgetting
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BURNSIDE, JOHN
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JONATHAN CAPE
2025
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