Event overview
In his new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores an interest in place and the natural world to excavate grief and loss.
In his new collection, Natural Burial Ground, Will Burns explores an interest in place and the natural world to excavate grief and loss, in poetry that is by turns melancholy and musical, haunting and deeply empathetic, a collection.
There is throughout a sense of ‘home’ as unsettled, or unsettling - the landscapes of the Home Counties and of the Channel Islands - the very concept of islands themselves, becoming changed,haunted, in the wake of human experience. In poems alive with familiar wildlife and the communities they move among - seabirds on the wing, the fishermen’s daily catch - Natural Burial Ground speaks to the human connection to landscapes, to family, the impact of climate change, pop music, wildlife and history.
Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. He is the Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River and an editor at Rough Trade Books. He was named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014 with his debut pamphlet. Will’s first full collection, Country Music, was published in 2020, and his debut novel, The Paper Lantern, was published in July 2021 for which he was named as one of the Observer’s Top 10 Debut Novelists of 2021.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Mar 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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