{"product_id":"9781787334557","title":"The Empire of Forgetting","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful exploration of life and death, illness and grace, wonder and beauty, in the posthumous collection from one of our greatest contemporary poets\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It's impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Burnside's last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme - mortality - and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting and the seven ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, as always, there is a clear-eyed curiosity; a sense of wonder at the beleaguered natural world and its endless mutability - its hidden beauty, often suddenly disclosed - and a deep faith in its old gods. Burnside was always as much a spirit-guide as a poet, and here, in the Empire of Forgetting, we are never far from a fresh alertness to the world, to epiphany - a sudden, spiritual manifestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a sense, too, in these last poems, of a man having found a 'dwelling place' - a sense of rest and peace and settlement with the world. A state of grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Among the best writers of his generation, fully voiced and perfectly pitched' ANDREW O'HAGAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A titan of literature' KATHLEEN JAMIE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49650040668408,"sku":"EB_LI0500_E09-03_SYDNEY","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781787334557-1_f31b0cc6-9488-4a9b-a12c-b826738bc6da.jpg?v=1789806981","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781787334557","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}