Dones

by John Burnside, Juan Antonio Montiel Rodríguez (Translator)

John Burnside es uno de los escritores británicos más originales y relevantes de nuestros días. Dones es uno de sus más recientes poemarios y una de las contribuciones más brillantes a la poesía de nuestro tiempo.
Diáfanos e intensamente trascendentales, estos poemas logran crear una inmediata intimidad con el lector, invitado a sumergirse en el agua de unos versos cuyo canto perdura en la memoria, como una experiencia íntima.

Genres: Poetry

194 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

John Burnside was a Scottish writer. He was the author of nine collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T.S. Eliot prizes. He left Scotland in 1965, returning to settle there in 1995. In the intervening period he worked as a factory hand, a labourer, a gardener and, for ten years, as a computer systems designer. Laterly, he lived in Fife with his wife and children and taught Creative Writing, Literature and Ecology courses at the University of St. Andrews.

[Author photo © Norman McBeath]

Reviews

[Joan Colby · Rating 5 out of 5]

. Lyric, meaning and brilliant diction combine in the poems of John Burnside, one of our finest modern poets. I’ll quote an example. From La Briere.

“It turns out, what we thought of as the soul
Is mostly sound;
Not song, but like a memory of birds
Or running water,
The churn of a paddle, the flicker and dip
Of an oar,
Narrow boats butting the land
on their quiet tethers.”

Or the whole of Wanderlust

“Last day of harbour;
Rain, and the lull of gospel

Clouding the sweet hiatus
Of home and kirk.

Mice in the oat-bin,
Honey bees snagging the nets,

And, slowly,
From the stockyards in the town,

The scent of beasts arrives;
The biblical;

Rudderless gazes
Turned to a farmer’s sky.”

[Caspar "moved to storygraph" Bryant]

a monument !and completes my john reading

we are labouring over absence more than usual. no complaint. shots skewed towards eliot. more arctic than john usually is and that man looks to inherit the arctic

[Jonathan Alvarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lamento no tener las bases culturales necesarias para entender la propuesta de Burnside. Sin embargo, he aprendido algunas cosas sobre el bagaje cultural escocés y su relación con el protestantismo. Me he llevado también algunos poemas que seguramente se convertirán en epígrafes de algunos textos.

[Jorge · Rating 4 out of 5]

De mejillas sonrosadas y sonrisa imperturbable, a John Burnside lo conocimos en un Cosmopoética en el que el escocés no renunció a beber. Burnside agota el léxico católico en este libro, tal vez porque "at night, my wife lies down/ among the saints,". Libro lleno de muertos y de nieblas, de copitos de nieve y de lanchas marinas, de fantasmas.