Black Light

poems in memory of George Seferis 

Black Light is a tribute to the work and memory of George Seferis, to the modern Greek poetic tradition, and to the Greek people, landscape and light. The first edition was published to coincide with the international conference on Seferis at the fifth international Cambridge Poetry Festival (1983), which Richard Burns founded in 1975. Since then, Black Light has become the best known of Richard Burns' books: reprinted three times in English, translated into four languages, and available with an added postscript in For the Living (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2004). The opening poem won the Duncan Lawrie Prize in the Arvon Poetry Competition.

For poems from Black Light on this website, click here.
For poems from Black Light  translated into Italian,click here.
For information about For the Living on this site, click here.
To order the King of Hearts edition (1995), £4.95 plus p&p, click here.

                                                 Editions in English

         
          First edition                     Second edition                        Third edition
      Los Poetry Press                 Los Poetry Press                  The King of Hearts
      Cambridge, 1983               Cambridge, 1986                     Norwich, 1995

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Editions in other languages

                          

            Serbo-Croat edition, 1984                            German edition, 1996