Winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry 2011 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011
John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 he became only the second person to win both the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes for poetry for the same book, Black Cat Bone. In 2015 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He is a Professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
The unmistakable work of a master
*Times Literary Supplement*
A tour de force of liminal expression... Burnside is not a wispily
ethereal poet. A stretch of country crossed during the hunt is
captured in oils, not in thin watercolours...poignantly
luminous...[an] engrossing collection
*Guardian*
Black Cat Bone is a deserving winner of this year's Forward Prize
for best collection. John Burnside's twelfth volume adds to and
deepens a body of poetry that is already exceptionally significant
- and utterly recognisable. A musician and chromaticist, he's a
poet whose rapt, floating verse conjures up effects of great beauty
in both the ear and the imagination
*Independent*
A haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory,
human longing and loneliness. In an exceptional year, it is an
outstanding book, one which the judges felt grew with every
reading
*Gillian Clarke, chair of the T.S. Eliot Prize*
One of the most gifted poets writing today
*Times Literary Supplement*
Burnside's inward eye has never been clearer, his poetic voice
never more plainly lovely.
*Candia McWilliam*
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
