Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside
PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton gendered violence and the figure

gendered violence and the figure of the 'Final Boy' as both myth and mirror

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

Ramona Herdman

this book is a palimpsest

Driftwork: Selected Poems by John Burnside <br> PRE-ORDER Matthew Welton gendered violence and the figurePublished 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