John Burnside Ordre des livres (chronologique)

A remarkable new collection from our finest lyric poet 'One of the most gifted poets writing today' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'By far the best British poet alive' SPECTATOR In this powerful, moving new book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognized that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge from such losses. An elegy for a dead lover ends with a quiet recognition of everyday beauty - first sun streaming through the trees ... a skylark in the near field, flush with song - as the speaker emerges from lockdown after a long illness. Throughout, the poet attends to the quality of grace - numinous, exquisite, fleeting as an angel's wing - and the broken tryst between humankind and its spiritual and animal elements, even with itself: the gaunt deer on the roads/like refugees. He acknowledges the inevitability of the fading towards death, but still finds chimes of light in the darkness - insisting that, here and now, even in decline, the world, when given its due attention, is all Annunciation.

In "Apostasie," John Burnside explores the shift from religious to earthly revelation and self-awareness, influenced by his Catholic upbringing. His poems invoke forgotten aspects of existence, highlighting the unseen world with vivid imagery, such as "starlight" as "rumor on the skin" and "pollen" scattered like "the timeless script of a world before the word."

Die ganze Verletzlichkeit des Lebens in nur einem Moment​Was macht eine gute Beziehung aus? Was ist Liebe – und was nicht? John Burnsides Geschichten tauchen in das Leben von Männern und Frauen ein, die – in einer Ehe gefangen, gebeutelt von falschen Erwartungen, dem Alkohol verfallen – alles andere als ideale Paare verkörpern. Untreu, einsam, krank, begegnet man seinen Heldinnen und Helden bevorzugt nachts auf leeren Straßen. Von so etwas wie Glück können sie nur träumen, ihre Gefühle bleiben meist sprachlos. Und doch könnten sie unsere Nachbarn sein.Burnside ist einer der besten Gegenwartslyriker und zugleich bemerkenswerter Essayist und Romancier. Mit dem vorliegenden Band lässt er sich nun erstmals in deutscher Sprache auch als Autor von Kurzgeschichten kennenlernen. Jede der zwölf Erzählungen der von ihm eigens zusammengestellten Auswahl zeigt die ganze Verletzlichkeit eines Lebens in nur einem Moment – und besitzt dennoch das Gewicht und die Dichte eines großen Romans.»Ein schottischer Raymond Carver.« Independent

Eine betörende, sprachgewaltige Hymne auf die Kraft der Vergänglichkeit »Das Altern ist der langsamste Prozess, den der Mensch kennt – und doch, wie plötzlich ist mein Leib alt geworden.« Früh Erlebtes und Gefühltes beschwörend, macht uns John Burnside die Magie der Vergänglichkeit begreifbar. Entlang persönlicher Lektüren, Erfahrungen mit Film, Musik und bildender Kunst, entwirft er, angefangen mit seiner Kindheit in einer sterbenden Bergarbeiterstadt, eine Geografie seiner Imagination. Oszillierend zwischen Helligkeit und Schwärze, voller Wissen um Abgründe, aber auch um eine lichte Gegenwärtigkeit. Ars moriendi – das Sterben als Kunstform – wurde selten so aktuell, politisch und sinnlich interpretiert wie hier von einem der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller der europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Eine beglückende und bittersüße Verneigung vor dem Zauber des Moments im Augenblick seines Erlöschens. Ein sprachgewaltiges Fest. »In diesem Licht wird Burnsides eigenes Werk neu lesbar: als Schreiben auf der Suche nach einem Himmel auf Erden …« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andreas Platthaus

Lucid, lyrical, and intellectually profound, this poetry collection resonates with themes of life, death, and the charmed darkness in between. Several ghosts haunt the work, including the author's mother, honored in a powerful pastoral elegy, and the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who searches for belonging in an improbable Lincolnshire landscape. The echoes of a lost pagan ancestry emerge unexpectedly, revealing a profound presence amid contemporary life. Central to the collection is Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, symbolizing the author's struggle with a severe sleep disorder that culminated in a near-death experience, influencing the latter part of the book. Additionally, the poems offer provocative reflections on the harm caused by institutions, such as organized religion and marriage, as well as the societal constructs of gender and romantic love that shape our lives. This collection showcases Burnside at his most elegiac, while also celebrating a radical sense of cultural independence. The work has been praised for its concision and beauty, solidifying Burnside's status as one of the finest British poets of our time.

Essays on extinction, death, renewal and continuity by the acclaimed writer and poet. Prompted by his own near death experience Burnside reflects on the stories of the auroch, the great auk, and of humanity.

Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Western front to the vast reckoning that came with the end of empire. This is the first and only history of twentieth century poetry, by the acclaimed poet, author and academic John Burnside. Bringing together poets from times and places as diverse as Tsarist Russia, 1960's America and Ireland at the height of the Troubles, The Music of Time reveals how poets engaged with and shaped the most important issues of their times - and were in their turn affected by their context and dialogue with each other. This is a major work of scholarship, that on every page bears witness to the transformative beauty and power of poetry.

What does it mean to live with integrity in the United States of America? That is the question haunting John Burnside's new novel... The way that Burnside layers these stories is masterful, and becomes a meditation on storytelling itself. Duncan White Daily Telegraph

Seit dem Herbst 2016 gibt es in Deutschland ein Haus für Poesie. Diesen Namen hat sich die Literaturwerkstatt Berlin gegeben, die sich seit langem mit dem »poesiefestival berlin«, mit dem Gedichteportal lyrikonline. org und zahlreichen Lyriklesungen für diese Gattung engagiert. Die Umbenennung wurde im Berliner Rathaus gefeiert, und Oswald Egger hielt die erste vielbeachtete »Berliner Rede zur Poesie«, die im Wallstein Verlag eine neue Reihe begründet. Am 18. Juni 2017 wird die Berliner Rede zur Poesie erstmals im Rahmen des poesiefestivals berlin gehalten werden, von dem international mit den höchsten literarischen Auszeichnungen gewürdigten schottischen Autor John Burnside, einem »Erzähler von Weltrang und einem eminenten Lyriker« (Tobias Döring, FAZ). Burnside zeigt in seinem Vortrag, ausgehend von einem Gedicht W. H. Audens, wie die Poesie überlebt und uns im gleichen Atemzug an unsere animalischen und imaginativen Kräfte erinnert, an die Kreatürlichkeit, die wir mit allen anderen lebenden Wesen teilen, sowie an eine ökologische Vision, die uns ermöglicht, neue Formen des Widerstands gegen die Macht der Manager zu entdecken und erfinden.

Liv ha trascorso i suoi primi tre anni a Oslo, ma non ricorda nulla di quel periodo. La sua vita è legata a Kvaløya, un'isola nel circolo polare artico, scelta da sua madre, pittrice, per rifugiarsi e dipingere. Vivono in una baita grigia affacciata sul fiordo di Malangen, in un luogo isolato, ad eccezione della casa e della hytte di Kyrre Opdahl, un rifugio usato in passato per la caccia. Qui, il tempo sembra scorrere diversamente, intriso di leggende che raccontano di eventi sinistri. Kyrre narra storie di ragazzi che, tornati da una notte di pesca, portano con sé una presenza inquietante. Nella tradizione popolare, i troll sono mostri e la huldra è una fata seducente, ma Kyrre percepisce queste entità come forze maligne legate a eventi reali. Liv, pur affascinata dai racconti, non crede in tali forze. Tuttavia, l'estate del suo diciottesimo compleanno porta eventi tragici che mettono in discussione le sue convinzioni. Mats e Harald Sigfridsson, due fratelli inseparabili, muoiono in circostanze misteriose dopo una notte di festa. Le loro morti, insieme a quella di Marti Crosbie, inquietano Kvaløya e colpiscono profondamente Liv, soprattutto quando osserva Kyrre e Maia svanire nel nulla, lasciando solo polvere dietro di sé. In quest'opera, l'autore esplora la fusione di follia, mistero e mito con una scrittura magistrale.

John Burnside ist ein Meister des unscheinbaren Augenblicks, in dem sich das abgründige Wesen der Dinge offenbart. Ob es die verstörende Betrachtung der Leiche eines Kojoten am Wegrand ist oder der Besuch des Berliner Spiegelkabinetts mit seinem Sohn, in dem das Ich plötzlich als schwindende, groteske Figur erscheint. Aber dann kann es auch sein, dass ein fliehender Hase, der über die großen Felder wegflitzt, den Dichter „sprachlos lässt, offen für Neues“. Burnside weiß: Was uns von den Dingen trennt, ist auch jenes „Leben, das niemals uns allein gehört, / das uns einschließt, bis alles / Chor ist“.

In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great built a palace which he filled with newborns, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired. As the children grew into their silent and difficult world, this palace became known as the Gang Mahal, or Dumb House. In his first novel, John Burnside explores the possibilities inherent in a modern-day repetition of Akbars investigations. The unnamed narrator creates a twisted variant of the Dumb House. When the children develop a musical language of their own, excluding their jailer, he extracts an appalling revenge.

In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance âe" of lost love and the love of being lost âe" darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour. The old Scots word âe~glamourâe(tm) means magical charm, and the first time he was played I Put a Spell on You, John Burnside thought he had never heard a more beautiful song âe" it was an enchantment, a fascination that would turn to obsession. Implicit in the song were all the ambiguities that intrigued him âe" love, possession and danger âe" and this book is an exploration of the darker side of glamour and attraction. Beginning with memories of a brutal murder, the book follows the author through a series of uncanny encounters with âe~lost girlsâe(tm), with brilliant digressions on murder ballads, voodoo, acid and insomnia, and a cast that includes Kafka and Narcissus, Diane Arbus and Mel Lyman, The Four Tops and Screaminâe(tm) Jay Hawkins, and time spent lost in the Arctic Circle, black-and-white films and a mental institution. Ending with the tender summoning of the ghost of his dying mother as she sings along to the radio in her empty kitchen, I Put a Spell on You is a book about memory, about the other side of love: a book of secrets and wonders.

Psychologische Spannung literarisch verdichtet - John Burnsides erster Roman endlich auch auf Deutsch. John Burnside ist einer der faszinierendsten Literaten unserer Zeit, der in seinen Werken immer wieder die Abgründe der menschlichen Natur erkundet. Bereits in seinem ersten Roman zeigt sich Burnsides Meisterschaft: In spannungsgeladenen Sätzen zeichnet er das Porträt eines jungen Mannes, der von maßlosem Forschergeist in den Wahnsinn getrieben wird.

In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, the author resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'. This title tells is an account of a troubled childhood.

At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the Arctic Circle, to dedicate herself to the solitary pursuit of her craft. She takes her young daughter with her. Things take a dark turn - is there something supernatural happening on the island?

Our world is changing at a dizzying our physical environment, our communities and our cultures, how we communicate and the speed with which we adapt to new ways of experiencing and living in the world. Caught in the midst of decline and regeneration, what are we losing and what are we gaining? And how do we decide what's worth saving and what should be thrown away? In this issue, we travel to places on the cusp of staggering change, talk to people who have seen and done it all and rescue a few choice items from the recycling bin. From Ireland's Catholic priests - once exported around the world and now under threat even in their own country - to the hitherto obscure music saved from extinction via the vast exchange mart of the Internet, "Granta 105" captures moments of both disappearance and rebirth in all their complexity and strangeness.

The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or dead, and without evidence the authorities claim they are simply runaways. The town policeman, Morrison knows otherwise. He was involved in the cover-up of one boy's murder, and he believes all the boys have been killed. Though he is seriously compromised, he would still like to find out the killer's identity. The local children also want to know and, in their fear and frustration, they turn on Rivers, a sad fantasist and suspected paedophile living alone at the edge of the wasteland. Trapped and frightened, one of the boys, Leonard, tries to escape, taking refuge in the poisoned ruins of the old plant; there he finds another boy, who might be the missing Liam and might be a figment of his imagination. With his help, Leonard comes to understand the policeman's involvement, and exacts the necessary revenge - before following Liam into the Glister: possibly a disused chemical weapons facility, possibly a passage to the outer world. A terrifying exploration of loss and the violence that pools under the surface of the everyday, Glister is an exquisitely written, darkly imagined novel by one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Eines Nachts, so erzählen sich die Bewohner des schottischen Küstenortes Coldhaven, entstieg der Teufel dem Meer und wanderte durch ihr schlafendes Städtchen. Seither nistet das Böse in ihrer Mitte. Michael Gardiner kennt die dunklen Seiten Coldhavens. Als Kind zog er mit seinen Eltern, einem Künstlerpaar, hierher. Von Anfang an war er der Außenseiter und wurde von den Mitschülern gequält. Dann ließ er sich mit einem Mädchen aus dem Dorf ein. Jahre später begeht dieses Mädchen auf erschreckend brutale Weise Selbstmord, und in Michael werden dunkle Erinnerungen wach …

A memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. It is about forgiving, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father.

In the summer of 1975, a rapist terrorizes Cambridge, targeting young women. A young photographer confronts his views on women as he gets caught up in various sexual intrigues amidst the chaos.

Charles Arrowby, a well-known theatre director, has come to live in a lonely house beside the sea. However, his longed for life of simplicity and solitude is shortlived: the house appears haunted, a strange creature emerges from the sea, women from whom he intended to escape, reappear. The Sea, The Sea is a remarkable book, distinguished by the power and depth of Miss Murdoch's imaginative vision, a novel which has deservedly received high critical and popular acclaim.