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PUBLISHER: Random House (Digital)

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781448114887

RRP: £7.31

PAGES: 64

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 30, 2011

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Swimming in the Flood

John Burnside

A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside’s darkest and most powerful collection yet.

John Burnside

John Burnside’s most recent collection of poetry, The Myth of the Twin, was shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize and chosen as one of the twenty books in the New Generation Poets promotion. In 1994 he won the first Cosmopolitan Poetry Prize, a Hawthornden Fellowship and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

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