Great Regulars: There are 46 days left until the end

of 2008. The nights are drawing in and the temperature is dropping. In Goose Music (Salt, £12.99), edited by Andy Brown and John Burnside, this poem captures the sombre beauty of the changing seasons.

XI The Afterlife from Eleven Gift Songs

Sooner or later, you wake in a different season,

from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week: Andy Brown and John Burnside

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