{"product_id":"black-cat-bone","title":"Black Cat Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth\/and muzzle\/coated with blood'; poems that recognise 'we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why\/they fail to love us'; poems that tell of an obsessive lover coming to grief in a sequence that echoes the old murder ballads, or of a hunter losing himself in the woods while pursuing an unknown and possibly unknowable quarry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on sources as various as the paintings of Pieter Brueghel and the lyrics of Delta blues, \u003ci\u003eBlack Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of risk and wonder, \u003ci\u003eBlack Cat Bone\u003c\/i\u003e shows the range of Burnside's abilities, but also strikes out for new territories. He remains consistently, though, one of our finest living lyric poets and each of these astonishing poems is as clear and memorable as 'a silver bracelet\/\/falling for days\/through an inch and a half\/of ice'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cape Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780224093859\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cape Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £4.38","offer_id":47958419308721,"sku":"SB-0224093851-C3","price":4.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0224093851.jpg?v=1790049893","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-cat-bone","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}