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Natural Burial Ground

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Natural Burial Ground

Contributors:

By (Author) Will Burns

ISBN:

9781472158062

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:

Corsair

Publication Date:

28th May 2024

UK Publication Date:

7th March 2024

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

821.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

80

Dimensions:

Width 124mm, Height 196mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

90g

Description

'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' Max Porter

In his beautiful, evocative new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores his deep interest in place and the natural world to excavate the emotional impact of grief and loss. Natural Burial Ground is by turns melancholy and musical, haunting and deeply empathetic, a collection that wrestles with the scope and heft of elegy, while retaining the poet's world-weary humour and range of imagery.

There is throughout a sense of 'home' as unsettled, or unsettling - the landscapes of the Home Counties and of the Channel Islands - the very concept of islands themselves, becoming changed, haunted, in the wake of human experience.

Time seeps into the soil of Natural Burial Ground. Reckoning with profound grief, and a country rife with 'Restrictions, recriminations . . .' - the poet finds the past visible everywhere on these grounds, where places come loaded with meaning across time - the deep past of archaeology, the weight of the personal-present, the reticent, uncertain future.

In poems alive with familiar wildlife and the communities they move among - seabirds on the wing, the fishermen's daily catch - Natural Burial Ground speaks to our connections to landscapes, to family, the impact of climate change, pop music, wildlife and history.

Author Bio

Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. He is the Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River and an editor at Rough Trade Books. He was named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014 with his debut pamphlet. Will's first full collection, Country Music, was published with Offord Road Books in 2020, and his debut novel, The Paper Lantern, was published in July 2021 with Weidenfeld & Nicholson for which he was named as one of the Observer's Top 10 Debut Novelists of 2021.

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