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The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside #foliosociety I’m – what’s the word'A master of language' HILARY MANTEL John Burnsides last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme mortality and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting and the seven ages. Here, as always, there is a clear eyed curiosity; a sense of wonder at the beleaguered natural world and its endless mutability its hidden beauty, often suddenly disclosed and a deep