Black Cat Bone

Summary

Haunted by the intersection of the human and the natural world, these poems move through liminal spaces—the edges of towns, the margins of forests, the threshold between waking and dream—with an eerie and unsettling precision. Burnside's lyric voice is one of the most atmospheric in contemporary Scottish poetry, dissolving the boundary between the perceiving self and the world it inhabits. The collection confirmed his reputation as the finest poet of the uncanny working in Britain today.