Sam Burnside [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnside, Sam.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Place of Publication:

Belfast : Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

New and Selected Poems; Title Page; Copyright Page; For Jack, Sophie, Ben, Matthew and Aimee; Acknowledgements; Contents; Poems; The Clock; Pieter Breughel Wintering in Ulster; Self and Non-Self; Orangeman; Michelangelo on Stand-By; Stepping Stones; An Irish Sacrament; Leave-taking; The Raft; In the Eye of the Storm; Champagne and Clods; Derek Hill: in respect of Paul Henry; True North; Stargazer Examines Biological Legacies; The Truth about Clichés; The Crows of Ballyshaskey; One Autumn Day; Blue and Grey; Sarah; Kate; John; Weather-Wise; Moon Rising Over Nessebar

Paramouring on Fahan StrandWinter Morning in Fahan; Across Church Floors; The Schoolhouse; The Tavern; Bottled Water; Among Trees; Eleventh Night; Easter Island; Walking the Marches; Stage Directions; Horses in Rain; Stone Dogs; The Big Cat Race; Pathways; Out Without a Coat in Inishowen; Assembling Together in Shinbone Alley; Beauty; Hearts on Bone; The Grey Eye; Cruit Island Poems; Gatekeepers; Open Door; Without Tongue; Artist at The Bar; Code Breakers; Getting to Grips with Horizons; Mirror, Mirror; I AM I; The Birds Have All Gone; One Year; All Dolled Up; Planter; Red and White and Blue

Black Bin LinerGathering at Taughlea; Bestiary; That Box; The Snail and the Thrush; Horse; Zoos; Parrot; Crows, Rooks and Ravens; Dogs; Robin; Slugs; Hens; Peacock; Doves; Goldfish; Badgers; Nanny Goats; Snakes; Cuckoos; Horses; Hedgehogs; Cows; Caterpillars; Wasps and Bees; Sheep; Snails; Rabbits; Pigs; Ducks; Houseflies, Horseflies and Bluebottles; Tortoise; Bulls; Sparrows; Hawks; Hare; Dragons; Leech; Mice; Butterflies; Swan; Fleas; The Council of Cats; Epilogue; From Grainan of Aileach to Derry - 21 December; Subscribers; Other publications by Sam Burnside

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-908448-92-X

1-908448-93-8

OCLC:

870598008