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Lily King: Heart the Lover, Kartoniert / Broschiert
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Touching, thoughtful, a deeply affecting love story about time and regret'DAVID NICHOLLS 'Steeped in yearning, melancholy and the reckoning with mortality that must come to us all . . . King's writing still pierces you' The Times 'Exploring how first love shapes a lifetime, here is a novel of piercing clarity' Independent 'Beautifully written . . .
SB1611 Enables ‘Ag-to-Urban’ Water Transitions for Real Estate Developers in Arizona | JD Supra
Arizona Senate Bill 1611 (SB1611), signed into law during the 2025 legislative session, introduces sweeping changes to Arizona’s groundwater and land use framework that could significantly benefit real estate developers operating in the Phoenix and Pinal Active Management Areas (AMAs).
John Burnside · Two Poems
God Bless the Child Of fathering, so little can be said that carries weight in this, or any world: the firstborn in his caul of ravensdown, the second, a capella from the realm of mole and sphagnum. Later, they repent and come to heel so gladly that the whole house swells with pride, a gown for her, a morning coat for him, lambswool and satin, midnight blue and gold, an ounce of civet stitched through every seam.
John Burnside · Poems
Notes towards a Devotio Moderna I As if there was a sky where we could pause a while, like medieval pilgrims, we are patient to the last and have no thought of After, or the gods that might have been: the green amidst the black, the changelings, or the newly resurrected.
The Old Masters by John Burnside | Poetry Magazine
About this Poet Poet and novelist John Burnside was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. He attended Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, where he studied English and European languages. A computer analyst and software engineer for many years, Burnside began publishing poetry in the 1980s. He is a prolific... More About this Poet
The Persistence of Memory
Out in the field where, once, we played Dead Man’s Fall, the others are being called through the evening dusk – Kenny and Marek, the Corrigans, Alex McClure – mothers and sisters calling them home for tea from kitchens fogged with steam and buttered toast, broth on the hot plate, ham hough and yellow lentils. Barely a wave, then they’re gone, till no one is left, and the dark from the woods closes in on myself alone, the animals watching, the older gods couched in the shadows.
Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside
‘The heart is not intact. It never was. It founders in the provinces of Thou’ John Burnside is the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Ruin, Blossom is a remarkable new collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction. We’re delighted to share four poems from this striking new collection here at BooksfromScotland.
John Burnside · Two Poems
Love Story Samarkand never was, though there were verses in the book that spoke of lacquerware and lapis lazuli, the beauty of our goods, delayed for months at Kandahar or Minsk, the horses dreaming in the dark behind their blinkers, nightlong caravans abroad beneath the sky.
Ruin, Blossom: 'A master of language' Hilary Mantel
By (author) John Burnside A remarkable new collection from our finest lyric poet and the winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature ‘By far the best British poet alive’ SPECTATOR ‘Burnside wrestles with hugeness in a way that few writers dare to do’ ALI SMITH, author of Autumn In this powerful, moving new book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms...
‘My stoner friends were into The Hobbit, but Gormenghast was darker’
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John Burnside: ‘My stoner friends were into The Hobbit, but Gormenghast was darker’
‘Mervyn Peake made me wonder if writing was maybe worth the risk’ … John Burnside.Photograph: Andrew Cawley My earliest reading memory The first book I read by myself, rather than at my mother’s proverbial knee, was The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne. I was around six and I’m fairly sure it was on loan from my teacher, Miss Meade, as our house contained no books other than the Bible.
The Old Woman Who Hexed Summer
Dear friends, So after writing last month about how summer disconcerts me, it seems as a consequence to have vanished entirely from this island – or at least, from the northern part of it that I inhabit. You may now call me The Old Woman Who Hexed Summer. Truth is, I’ve loved it; it’s made July – my least favourite month of the year, when getting through the heat and the light seems like an impossible slog – bearable.
A False Awakening
Only the minor gods have ventured out this morning: delicate and silken, with a gift for mimicry, they do not stoop to punish, or forgive, though, sometimes, they are capable of blessing.
A Robust and Diverse Water Portfolio Enables Arizona to Meet the Challenges Ahead | JD Supra
Over the past five weeks, we have described the wide range of water resources available to meet Arizona’s current and future needs. These resources include groundwater, in-state surface water, Colorado River water, long-term storage credits, and reclaimed water. We also discussed the latest developments on groundwater availability in the Phoenix Active Management Area. As these previous articles demonstrate, Arizona has abundant and diverse water supplies.
A Robust and Diverse Water Portfolio Enables Arizona to Meet the Challenges Ahead
Over the past five weeks, we have described the wide range of water resources available to meet Arizona’s current and future needs. These resources include groundwater, in-state surface water, Colorado River water, long-term storage credits, and reclaimed water. We also discussed the latest developments on groundwater availability in the Phoenix Active Management Area. As these previous articles demonstrate, Arizona has abundant and diverse water supplies.
Breaking News: Phoenix AMA Has Abundant Groundwater and Will Still Have Abundant Groundwater in 100 Years | JD Supra
On June 1, 2023, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs revealed the results of a new groundwater model prepared by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (“ADWR”) that predicts the future availability of groundwater for pumping throughout most of the Phoenix Active Management Area (the “Phoenix AMA”) over the 100-year period mandated by ADWR’s Assured Water Supply Program.
The Rise of Reclaimed Water: Reuse of Water in Arizona, Already Important, is Primed to Grow Alongside Increasing Scarcity of Other Water Sources | JD Supra
It seems that not a day goes by without another news story bringing Arizona to the forefront of a national dialogue about water security in a time of drought, changing climate, and growing population. This article is Part 6 of Snell & Wilmer’s series providing context for that dialogue as it applies to Arizona’s diverse and resilient water supplies.
The Rise of Reclaimed Water: Reuse of Water in Arizona, Already Important, is Primed to Grow Alongside Increasing Scarcity of Other Water Sources
It seems that not a day goes by without another news story bringing Arizona to the forefront of a national dialogue about water security in a time of drought, changing climate, and growing population. This article is Part 6 of Snell & Wilmer’s series providing context for that dialogue as it applies to Arizona’s diverse and resilient water supplies.
The Rise of Reclaimed Water: Reuse of Water in Arizona, Already Important, is Primed to Grow Alongside Increasing Scarcity of Other Water Sources
It seems that not a day goes by without another news story bringing Arizona to the forefront of a national dialogue about water security in a time of drought, changing climate, and growing population. This article is Part 6 of Snell & Wilmer’s series providing context for that dialogue as it applies to Arizona’s diverse and resilient water supplies.
Long Term Storage Credits: Securing Arizona’s Water Future | JD Supra
This article is Part 5 of Snell & Wilmer’s series on Arizona’s water supply and legal framework. So far in this series we have examined the most common and most-used water sources in Arizona’s diverse water portfolio: groundwater, surface water, and Colorado River water. This article describes Arizona’s long-term storage credit (LTSC) system, which provides a mechanism for storage of water underground for future use.
Long Term Storage Credits: Securing Arizona’s Water Future
This article describes Arizona’s long-term storage credit (LTSC) system, which provides a mechanism for storage of water underground for future use. Over nearly two decades, the LTSC system has generated a reliable supply of stored water that may be accessed by municipal water providers, developers, industrial users, and others that either store water directly or purchase credits through an active market.
The Law of the Colorado River: An Opportunity for Change | JD Supra
The Department of Interior announced on Monday, May 22, 2023 an agreement with the Lower Basin states to conserve 3 million acre-feet (“MAF”) of water in Lake Mead for the next four years, with 2.3 MAF paid for with funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. The balance of 700,000 acre-feet will need to be conserved voluntarily by Arizona, California, and Nevada.
Arizona’s In-State Surface Water Resources: Appropriable Water, Used Appropriately, Fosters Economic Development | JD Supra
This article is Part 3 of a series providing information about the resilience of Arizona’s water supplies during a time in which the news is dominated by stories about drought and scarcity. As we noted in Part 1, Arizona has a very diverse water portfolio to draw on, including Colorado River water, in-state surface water, groundwater, recycled water, and large quantities of water stored in underground aquifers.
More than Just a Drop in the Bucket, Arizona Groundwater Supplies Pose Problems and Potential Solutions for Policy Makers | JD Supra
While the local and national press inundate us with articles about the dire nature of Arizona’s water supplies and questions about why people are even allowed to live in a desert, careful planning by water leaders over decades has created resilient responses to these challenges that are unmatched in the Southwest and perhaps the nation.
As an Excellent Winter Transitions to an Uncertain Spring, How Secure are Arizona’s Water Supplies? | JD Supra
Arizona’s water supplies have been front page news for months. Both local and national media have reported on increasingly serious shortages on the Colorado River and the inability of the states that rely on the River to reach consensus on how to share those shortages.
As an Excellent Winter Transitions to an Uncertain Spring, How Secure Are Arizona’s Water Supplies?
Arizona’s water supplies have been front page news for months. Both local and national media have reported on increasingly serious shortages on the Colorado River and the inability of the states that rely on the river to reach consensus on how to share those shortages.
‘Wulf-monath’ · LRB 30 March 2023
John Burnside John Burnside teaches at St Andrews. His poetry collections include Feast Days (1992), (2000) and (2011), which won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has also written several novels, two collections of short stories and three books of memoir, parts of which were first published in the .
‘Apostasy’ · LRB 12 May 2022
John Burnside John Burnside teaches at St Andrews. His poetry collections include Feast Days (1992), (2000) and (2011), which won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has also written several novels, two collections of short stories and three books of memoir, parts of which were first published in the .
A magical epic
When the first volume of Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy appeared in 2019, it was quickly recognized as a masterly work of fantasy fiction, drawing comparisons with Tolkien, Angela Carter and Beowulf. Part quest narrative, part picaresque, Black Leopard, Red Wolf follows a man named Tracker as he weaves a trail through various lands, encountering a magical cast of shapeshifters, witches and powerbrokers in a seemingly never-ending search for a lost child.
A magical epic: Moon Witch, Spider King, by Marlon James, reviewed
When the first volume of Marlon James’s Dark Star trilogy appeared in 2019, it was quickly recognised as a masterly work of fantasy fiction, drawing comparisons with Tolkien, Angela Carter and Beowulf. Part quest narrative, part picaresque, Black Leopard, Red Wolf follows a man named Tracker as he weaves a trail through various lands, encountering a magical cast of shapeshifters, witches and powerbrokers in a seemingly never-ending search for a lost child.
Learning to Sleep
ABOUT THIS BOOK PUBLISHER: Vintage Publishing FORMAT: Electronic book text ISBN: 9781473577374 RRP: £9.99 PAGES: 80 PUBLICATION DATE: August 5, 2021 CATEGORIES Arts and Humanities By (author) John Burnside Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside’s first collection of poetry in four years – from the author’s mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some...
Blood on the tracks: the unsolved murder of the Japanese railway chief
‘There is no end to influence,’ says Harold Bloom in his seminal 1973 work, The Anxiety of Influence — and without getting into the detail of his argument, we can say that the impact of having read and admired others is always an issue for all but the most naive writers.
John Burnside · Two Poems · LRB 1 July 2021
Aubade (In memoriam J.P.) Morning in lockdown. Shadows in the yard, Quink-blue and gradually shifting, like those eels we used to see above the weir, thick whipcords of lust and instinct, surging headlong through the mystery of grass.
Learning to Sleep
By (author) John Burnside Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside’s first collection of poetry in four years – from the author’s mother, commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy, to the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wanders an implausible Lincolnshire landscape looking for some sign of belonging.
John Burnside · Poem: ‘The Night Ferry’ · LRB 17 December 2020
Had I been less prepared, I would have left in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard was still in bloom, the windows open after months of snow, one magpie in the road and then another. I could have slipped away, late afternoon, while everyone was busy somewhere else, the fish van at the corner, children dawdling home from school in twos and threes, a porch light lit against the dusk on Tollbooth Wynd. Give me these years again and I will spend them wisely.
‘Haar’ · LRB 8 January 2004
Matthew 19-22 This is as good as it gets: this cold fog over the water, this pale companion to the dreams I can’t forget and never quite recall. Stale afternoon. My neighbour stands in her yard and watches the sky: her children are gone; her husband is lost at sea; how she remembers them now is by looking out patterns for Arran sweaters, mittens, balaclavas. Her landlord, a lickspittle spiv in a flat tweed cap, sits in his house on Toll Road counting his money.
Poetry world by Paul Dean
Around the year 940 A.D., a Chinese poet, Zhao Chongzuo, contributed to an anthology of lyric verse called Huajian ji, for which he also wrote a preface. This work, translated into English by P. P.
Into the quotidian
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We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration
On January 20th, 1961 a poet read for the first time during a presidential inauguration. The idea to invite Robert Frost to “say” a poem during the ceremony originated not with John F. Kennedy himself but with Stewart L. Udall, an environmentalist, activist, former Arizona congressman and Secretary of the Interior designate, who had got to know Frost during his residency at the Library of Congress.
Everyone Was a Bird | John Burnside
For reasons that were left unexplained at the time, and which still trouble me now, the first poems I was given to read were “about” war. As a twelve-year-old, I assumed my teachers were right in assuming that their male charges were more disposed to battlefield heroics than, say, to romantic love.
The Doll by Ismail Kadare review - a fascinating study of difficult love
The Doll by Ismail Kadare review – a fascinating study of difficult love. The Albanian author explores his relationship with his mother and bittersweet memories of home At first acquaintance, Ismail Kadare’s autobiographical novel can be read as an elegant, slightly bittersweet coming-of-age memoir, touched with nostalgia for a homeplace that is now long lost.
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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John Burnside · Three Poems · LRB 12 September 2019
Whoso List to Hunt Small comfort to be had in mea culpa, damp afternoons, just shy of saccharin, a boyhood in the rain rescripted as a child’s compendium of minor sins.
John Burnside · Six Poems · LRB 4 April 1996
Desire When we’re apart I imagine us in Japan, two hundred years ago, behind a screen, or watching the snow from the yawn of a paper room, the lovers in some shunga by Harunobu. It’s that formality we sometimes need to feed desire: intimate, yet giving in to light and shadow, allowing the other space to be intact and seen, like the single pine in a yard of gravel, revealed by the tug of the grain and this curtain of snow.
Washed-up in LA | Spectator USA
Books This Storm by James Ellroy reviewed When James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential appeared in 1990, it introduced us to a world of blatant corruption, casual racism and routine police brutality that, a year before anybody ever heard of Rodney King, might have seemed fanciful to some. Set in the early 1950s, the novel was a landmark in neo-noir writing, in which historical detail mingled with pacy fiction to conjure up a city that was both highly glamorous and rotten to the core.
I’m Kind of a Big Dill: Current Challenges in Transporting Food Under FSMA | JD Supra
Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”)’s publication of the Final Rule regarding Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food on April 6, 2016, 21 CFR 1.900, et seq. (the “STF Rule”), there has been an increase in food cargo claims and confusion surrounding compliance with the STF Rule.
InterConnect Newsletter - Spring 2019 | JD Supra
Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.
LRB · John Burnside · Poem: ‘At Notre Dame de Reims’
the snake is a snake; but the toad has a human face, in the hidden gallery under the roof, where the masons practised their art, away from the bishops and kings.
Tolkien in Africa
Books Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James reviewed Marlon James Anyone who has issues with Tolkien (at 16, even in a suitably ‘altered state’, I could not finish The Hobbit, never mind The Lord of the Rings), anyone who falls asleep while watching a tedious Joseph Campbell-formula flick such as Star Wars, anyone saddened by the 2014 BBC poll of adult readers that included six fantasy books among its top ten British novels of all time may well approach Marlon James’s latest offering warily.
The New York Review of Books
Men’s Lib On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside Princeton University Press, 175 pp., $22.95 Larry Colwell/Anthony Barboza/Getty ImagesHenry Miller, California, circa 1950 Pity John Burnside.
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