Ruin, Blossom Stranger schreef hij een bundel die

schreef hij een bundel die aan het front werd gedrukt op de stencilmachine van het leger

is marked by a remarkable combination of lyricism and abstraction

During the lockdown of 2020/21

relishing the pleasure of slow

Ruin, Blossom Stranger schreef hij een bundel dieJohn Burnside In this powerful, moving book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge