Overview
Miles Burrows is a man always in love, and confused as lovers have to be by the inconstant nature of 'the other'. With Waiting for the Nightingale, he expresses social class anxiety, nostalgia and the competing glamour of women and metaphysics. Burrows is also aware of mortality, Eros and Thanatos tap constantly at his funny bone. Does God exist? Will the nightingale sing?Reviews
Miles Burrows' poems "please and surprise." —Cosmopolite Author Biography
Miles Burrows studied at Charterhouse and Wadham College Oxford. He read Russian in National Service, then Classics and Medicine. He worked as travel and fiction reviewer at the New Statesman and his poems appeared on radio and television. His first collection, A Vulture's Egg, was published by Cape. His work has been anthologized in British Poetry since 1945 (Penguin: ed. Lucie-Smith) and in Best Poems of the Year 2012 (Forward). He is a regular contributor to TLS, Poetry Review, and PNR. He has worked as doctor in New Guinea, Thailand, and Haverhill. He lives in Cambridge.
