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24 titles for readers of Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside, selected for shared themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Poetry.

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Nobody Told Me Poetry and Parenthood

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Poetry of Birds — Simon Armitage

The Poetry of Birds

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Off the Shelf A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse — Carol Ann Duffy

Off the Shelf A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse

Carol Ann Duffy

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Christ and Qabalah Or, the Mind in the Heart — Gareth Knight

Christ and Qabalah Or, the Mind in the Heart

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Renaissance Women Poets — Isabella Whitney

Renaissance Women Poets

Isabella Whitney

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Works of the Brontë Sisters — Anne Brontë

The Works of the Brontë Sisters — Anne Brontë

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Windswept Poems of Love — Owain Glyn

Windswept Poems of Love

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Marginalia — Tom Chivers

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse — Quentin Blake

The Penguin Book of Nonsense Verse

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Waste Land, and Other Poems — Thomas Stearns Eliot

The Waste Land, and Other Poems

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Literary Names Personal Names in English Literature — Alastair Fowler

Literary Names Personal Names in English Literature

Alastair Fowler

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Welsh Poetry Music and Metres — Howard Huws

Welsh Poetry Music and Metres

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Romantic Poets — John Keats

The Romantic Poets

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Poems that Make Grown Men Cry 100 Men on the Words that Move Them — Anthony Holden

Poems that Make Grown Men Cry 100 Men on the Words that Move Them

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Out of the Ashes — Frieda Hughes

Out of the Ashes

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Tottel’s Miscellany Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others — Amanda Holton

Tottel’s Miscellany Songs and Sonnets of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Others

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Hallelujah for 50ft Women Poems about Women’s Relationship to Their Bodies — Raving Beauties (Group)

Hallelujah for 50ft Women Poems about Women’s Relationship to Their Bodies

Raving Beauties (Group)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Penguin’s Poems for Life — Laura Barber

Penguin’s Poems for Life

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Dancing By The Light of The Moon Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite — Gyles Brandreth

Dancing By The Light of The Moon Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite

Gyles Brandreth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Nation’s Favourite Poems — Griff Rhys Jones

The Nation’s Favourite Poems

Griff Rhys Jones

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Keats And Spenser (1897) — William Alexander Read

Keats And Spenser (1897)

William Alexander Read

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The Seagull Reader Poems — Joseph Kelly

The Seagull Reader Poems

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Subliminal Dust — Pooja Mittal

Subliminal Dust

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry — Dannie Abse

Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Poetry

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Poetry — the same threads that run through Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside. Among the authors featured: Hollie McNish, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Gareth Knight, and others.

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