Apostasy is a remarkable collection of fourteen poems by John Burnside, one of the UK’s foremost poets. A child struggles to reconcile a received world-view with a more instinctive and passionate paganism. A lyrical connection with the natural world offers an imaginative and spiritual freedom, as an inherited, doctrinaire explanation of existence is overwhelmed by and abandoned to the wonder of living in the mystery and truth of nature, seeing and touching an incarnation with nothing to reveal but itself.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Michael Marks Poetry Award.
‘For my money, John Burnside is by far the best British poet alive.’
Cressida Connolly, The Spectator
Apostasy is also available as a kindle ebook.
Paul O’Prey reads five poems from John Burnside’s Apostasy at its London launch in 2022:
20 pages.
