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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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- “For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of K…”John Burnside
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Books by John Burnside
The Devil's Footprints
2007
The devil's footprints
2007