Ruin, Blossom Fourth Person Singular Shaped prose is a form

Shaped prose is a form that works the "little edges" of lyric and discourse

the sublime and the ephemeral

extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth

‘a massive song sung / at the port'

Ruin, Blossom Fourth Person Singular Shaped prose is a formJohn Burnside In this powerful, moving 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 amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge