Learning to Sleep by John Burnside 2016 ‘Introducing Karen Solie

‘Introducing Karen Solie

The Following Scan is an honest and dryly comic account of a period in the author’s life that elides pretension in search of autonomy and self-knowledge

bloom into “the flower that directs and sustains us

Tennyson and Hardy

Learning to Sleep by John Burnside 2016 ‘Introducing Karen SolieLucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of poetry in four years from the author's mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign