Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Eyewear When you say pear

When you say pear

funny and profound

Poets from all over the world join audiences drawn from near and far for an annual celebration of poetry in England’s rural heartland

as well as the race that once was

Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Eyewear When you say pearLucid, 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