The poems we will be reading and discussing are all taken from the winning book of poems: Black Cat Bone* published by Jonathan Cape. This book also won the prestigious 2011 Forward Prize.
"Accessible, memorable and often strikingly beautiful...Burnside is renowned for haunting imagery, but it's impeccable musical judgement that binds his lyrics together."
Fiona Sampson, Independent
1. On The Fairytale Ending
2. Loved and Lost
3. Hurts Me Too
4. A Game Of Marbles
5.Bird Nest Bound
6.Hyena
7. Pieter Brueghel: Winter Landscape With Skaters and Bird Trap, 1565
8. Late Show
9.From The Chinese
* Black cat bone: A powerful hoodoo talisman, conferring success, invisibility and sexual power on its owner. It is highly prized because of the elaborate and dangerous nature of the rite by which it is obtained; cf Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men for a vivid account of the ritual.
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