Synopsis
This selection contains work drawn from six previous publications together with more recent poems, including a Bestiary or suite of animal poems.The former draws heavily on the landscape of the north of Ireland, while the later is influenced by the form, content and tone of a tradition familiar since the Middle Ages when it was commonly believed that the natural world, the so-called 'book of nature', had been arranged, in the way it was, by God to provide a source of instruction to humanity. The result is a body of poetry that locates and sympathetically explores human experience in the context of a vividly realised world of nature. Sam Burnside's work has received praise for its craftmanship ('verse that is even-pitched and meticulously crafted', Linenhall Review) and for the ways in which it sympathetically explores the experience of living in Northern Ireland.
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