Ruin, Blossom Bathhouse and Other Tanka Gyms is a collection of

Gyms is a collection of poetry

and the daily experience of that world as reflected

which is bouquet—dianthic

translation Emily Wilson

Ruin, Blossom Bathhouse and Other Tanka Gyms is a collection ofJohn Burnside In this powerful, moving book, John Burnside takes his cue from Schiller, who recognised that, as one thing fades, so another flourishes: everywhere and always, in matters great and small, new life blossoms amongst the ruins. Here, in poems that explore ageing, mortality, environmental destruction and mental illness, Burnside not only mourns what is lost in passing, but also celebrates the new, and sometimes unexpected, forms that emerge