John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. 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...

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. 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.