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Author - John Burnside
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Mystery
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating.....
Speak
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we....
Animal
What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity....
Abundance
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we....
Quality
With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking,....
Key
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators,....
harmony
The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into....
Stands
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
family
As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before....
time
All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the....
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