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Black cat bone

Author
John Burnside
Narrator
Bob Rollett
Length
52 minutes
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Catalogue Number
9169
Synopsis

A collection of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast. Poems that recognise we have too much to gain from the gods, and this is why they fail to love us.