Apostasy is a remarkable new collection of fourteen poems by John Burnside, one of the UK's foremost poets.
A child struggles to reconcile a received Catholic world-view with a more instinctive and passionate paganism. A deep connection with the natural world offers an imaginative and spiritual freedom.
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Winner of Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection 2011 and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011.
John Burnside is one oJohn burnside portrait black and whitef the UK's foremost poets. His 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, won both the Forward prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His most recent book collection is Learning to Sleep. He has also written several novels and two memoirs. Essays and non-fiction include The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century (2019), and Aurochs and Auks: Essays on Mortality and Extinction ((2021).
