Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside
PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton From the heights of new

From the heights of new love to the furrows of sorrow

Louise grew up in care from the age of nine and Glue celebrates both her fierce independence and emotional vulnerability

a third wedding held in a nursing home

Ramona Herdman

Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside <br> PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton From the heights of newPublished 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