Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Mark Roper They conjure big landscapes and

They conjure big landscapes and moments of tenderness

Many of the other poems

and his invention of the duplex – a combination of the sonnet

Must we still describe willows as weeping

Learning to Sleep by John Burnside Mark Roper They conjure big landscapes andLucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness. 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