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Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011
Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.
Trade ReviewIf genius is operating anywhere in English poetry at present, I feel it is here, in Burnside's singular music -- Adam Thorpe * Observer *
A poet of rare and extraordinary talent -- Michael Bracewell * Independent *
Lyrical beauty, emotional charge and unforced clarity of form... His poems are acts of revelation * Scotsman *
Burnside has a stillness and emotional restraint, a respect for the observer and observed alike which is serious, exemplary and rare * Times Literary Supplement *
Burnside's vision is of another, sacred, fragile world that co-exists with our own dailiness: his gift is the ability, through poems of a rare and exquisite precision of language, to let his reader glimpse it -- Elizabeth Burns * Scotsman *
