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About John Burnside
Scottish writer
John Burnside was a Scottish writer, known for his poetry and for the recognition his work received in major literary prizes. He was one of four poets to win both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single collection, Black Cat Bone, in 2011. In 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for his body of work.
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- “I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise tha…”John Burnside
- “All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the mornin…”John Burnside
- “As I child, I came to this idea with a horrified fascination. Once upon a time, I wasn’t here. Before that, m…”John Burnside
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- “At the round earth's imagined corners blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless i…”John Donne
- “Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur la ville.”Paul Verlaine
- “You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream…”Sanhita Baruah
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Books by John Burnside
The Devil's Footprints
2007
The devil's footprints
2007