Country Music

The poems in Country Music are observant and curious, finding everywhere they look detail worthy of notice. From the intimately personal, the choices that lead us towards, or away from, old friends, lovers, family members and their lost and vanishing stories, to the collective humanity's 'bad choices piling up like debts' Burns is everywhere concerned with consequence and responsibility. In its evocations of doubt and responsibility, music and memory, Country Music is a debut of immense power from one of British poetry's most accomplished new voices.