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COLLECTION · RELEASED SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2026
My Last Address
Horses: Horses: Horses
Rachel Burns
£11.99
£14.00
RRP £13.99 / $18.99 / €16.99
126 pages, 5" × 8"
Released September 30th, 2026
ISBN 978-1-918628-16-6
My Last Address, Horses, Horses, Horses by Rachel Burns is a raw, propulsive book of poems and lyric prose that moves through teenage motherhood, addiction, poverty, care work, violence, and the long afterlife of classed shame with furious clarity and bruised humour. Across six sections, Burns writes from buses, pubs, kitchens, prisons, foodbanks, council estates, and the uneasy calm of nature reserves, allowing memory to return in flashcuts, refrains, and narrative riffs that feel as immediate as speech.
The collection's emotional range is wide, from the bleak comedy of survival and the tenderness of parenthood to the stark ache of friendship, loss, and what gets left behind, while recurring motifs of horses, film, music, and woodland destruction thread private life into a wider social landscape. It is a book that refuses respectability and refuses silence, insisting on testimony without polishing the edges.
PRAISE FOR MY LAST ADDRESS
Rachel Burns’s breathtaking new collection offers us a world: boys drinking snakebite outside the slaughterhouse, a bride who carries a wedding cake onto the number 21 bus. The poet has complete mastery of a pacy, direct, innovative, colloquial language, which allows these poems to draw blood. Few collections of poetry have lived so much or seen so much; few writers have the ability to forge a language so vivid and…
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Burns lives in County Durham. She was awarded a DYCP Arts Council Grant in 2023. She won the Classical Association Poetry Prize in 2026. She was placed second in The Julian Lennon Prize for Poetry 2021 and second in the Disabled Poets Prize 2024. Her poetry has been widely anthologised, including COAL Smith/Doorstop and North Country, Saraband . Rachel has facilitated poetry workshops for The Ginkgo Prize, Tees Women Poets, The Writing School and Creative Future. Her pamphlet, A Girl in a Blue Dress , is…
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