All One Breath

Contents

About the Author

Also by John Burnside

SELF PORTRAIT AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR

I: Hall of Mirrors, 1964

II: Self Portrait

III: My Grandmother’s House

IV: Power Cut with Cheval Mirror (Homage to Thomas Hardy)

VII: Self Portrait as Picture Window

IX: A New Anatomy

X: Spiegelkabinett, Berlin, 2012

DEVOTIO MODERNA

At the Entering of the New Year (Homage to Thomas Hardy)

Return of the Prodigal Son

Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768

Devotio Moderna

Hôtel de Grave

At my Father’s Funeral

Tod und Verklärung

The Day Etta Died

My Grandmother, Elizabeth Burnside, 1962

On the Vanishing of my Sister, Aged 3, 1965

Tommy McGhee, Corby Works, 1981

First Signs of Ageing

Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012

Instructions for a Sky Burial

NATURAL HISTORY

First Footnote on Zoomorphism

The Wisdom of Insecurity

Self Portrait as Amnesiac

Nocturne: Christmas, 2012

Acknowledgements