Stuart Kelly, in the Scotsman, 16 August 2025: a review of ‘The Empire of Forgetting’ by John Burnside
“Although it reflects his longstanding concerns with haunting and mortality, this posthumous collection of poems by John Burnside uses a lighter palette than some of his previous work.”
“It is understandably tempting, but would be fundamentally wrong, to read this posthumous collection of John Burnside’s poetry as a kind of last word. It is not a pre-emptive epitaph. The atmosphere, the particular tropes and obsessions, have been part of his poetic lexicon for some time.”
The Scotsman review of ‘The Empire of Forgetting’ closes: 
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