Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Mark Roper As unexpected as it is

As unexpected as it is bold

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Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Mark Roper As unexpected as it isLucid, 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