Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside
PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton and witness the horrors and

and witness the horrors and delights that befall the dead

these poems won’t repel and may even amuse you

In one sequence influenced by Japanese forms

much like Dante’s Inferno

Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside <br> PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton and witness the horrors andPublished 20 August 2026 The definitive selection of John Burnside's extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it 'Its impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIAN Over thirty five years and seventeen collections, John Burnside built a body of poetry that was consistently luminous, original and profound, always in thrall to the