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by John Burnside

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Winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, Black Cat Bone is the first American publication of the poetry of John Burnside

Before the songs I sang there were the songs
they came from, patent shreds
of Babel, and the secret
Nineveh of back rooms in the dark.

Hour after hour
the night trains blundered through
from towns so far away and innocent
that everything I knew seemed fictional:
--from "Death Room Blues"

John Burnside's Black Cat Bone is full of poems of thwarted love and disappointment, raw desire, the stalking beast. One sequence tells of an obsessive lover coming to grief in echoes of the old murder ballads, and another longer poem describes a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry. Black Cat Bone introduces American readers to one of the best poets writing across the Atlantic.

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  • Title Black Cat Bone: Poems
  • Author John Burnside
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press
  • Publication date 2015-07-07
  • ISBN 9781555977146 / 1555977146
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.2 in (19.56 x 13.46 x 0.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Scottish poetry, Scottish poetry - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014960048
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.92

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2015, Page 17
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2015, Page 87
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/15/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 08/04/2015, Page 0

About the author

John Burnside is a poet, fiction writer, and memoirist. His poetry has received the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, and the Petrarca Preis. He lives in Fife, Scotland.

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