Goose Music

Andy Brown is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at Exeter University. His recent books include Hunting the Kinnayas (Stride, 2004), From a Cliff (Arc, 2002) and Of Science (Worple, 2001, with David Morley). Andy Brown studied Ecology, a discipline that informs both his poetry and his criticism, which appears in The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Salt, 2006). He was previously a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation’s creative writing courses, and has been a recording musician.John Burnside was born in 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Mystery, luminosity and forgetting the maps – that thrilling space between sense data and faith.

• AcknowledgementsPart OneGoose MusicSome Notes on a Theory of EmergenceNature CornerAtavismInsomniaThe Other GardenGanders in the GardensA Horse’s SkullOn Hollow MoorEleven Gift SongsSmall VoicesPine Trees at Five WaysLos angeles mohososThree Enquiries Concerning AngelsThe Ice Pool Under the Church TowerPrayerPrayer / Why I am Happy to be in the City this SpringCastor / PolluxFiat NoxJanus?--?Li Po SonnetsOrangePart TwoTwo Essays on the Folk StoryThe Breaking of WavesPersephoneEurydiceMules at YstradginlaisNarcissus (Einzelgaenger)Part ThreePoems of the FatherThe Blue HourThe Promise of HomeHomage to Henri BergsonThe Other BrotherTowards a Book of Common PrayerOn the Road to the Eye HospitalDedications