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Gift Songs
John Burnside
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Description for Gift Songs
Paperback. Presents a collection of poems. This work contains gift song, treating matters of faith and connection, the community of living creatures and the idea of a free church, explorations of time and place, the beginnings of a renewal of the connection to, and faith in, an ordered world. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese notion, attributed to Hokusai, that to paint bamboo, one had first to become bamboo.
In his tenth collection, John Burnside begins with an interrogation of the gift song, treating matters of faith and connection, the community of living creatures and the idea of a free church - ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224079976
SKU
V9780224079976
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Ref
99-79
About John Burnside
John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2024, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot ... Read more
Reviews for Gift Songs
If genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music
Adam Thorpe
Observer
I love the way John Burnside looks at the world. He doesn't just look: he watches. He sees into secret spaces that lie somewhere between the hidden and the revealed... [He] crafts a poetry as ... Read more
Adam Thorpe
Observer
I love the way John Burnside looks at the world. He doesn't just look: he watches. He sees into secret spaces that lie somewhere between the hidden and the revealed... [He] crafts a poetry as ... Read more