The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025
Hardback mythology and art are set

mythology and art are set alongside stories of attraction

Bloomsbury Review

which often operate as mutually reinforcing vectors

From the mythic to the mundane

The book is about my reserve in northern Alberta

The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Autumn 2025</b><br> Hardback mythology and art are setJohn 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