The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025
Hardback ‘the wound is continuously postponed’

‘the wound is continuously postponed’

mythology and art are set alongside stories of attraction

humour and love

From the mythic to the mundane

trickster-style

The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025</b><br> Hardback ‘the wound is continuously postponed’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