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JOHN BURNSIDE was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry only yesterday (Monday 16 Jan), for his eleventh and latest poetry collection
Black Cat Bone. Beating stiff competition, including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Burnside was awarded the £15,000 prize at a ceremony in London. This is the second award he has won for
Black Cat Bone, having won the Forward Poetry Prize in October 2011, which has been described as “
a haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory, human longing and loneliness” (Guardian, Jan 2012)
John Burnside wins most controversial TS Eliot prize in decades - Guardian, Monday 16 January 2012
JOHN BURNSIDE has published eleven previous collections of poetry, among them
The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and six works of fiction - most recently the novel,
A Summer of Drowning, which came out in 2011. He has also written two books of memoirs,
A Lie About My Father and
Waking Up In Toytown.
John Burnside’s recent collection
Black Cat Bone won the Forward Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
“… a poet whose rapt, floating verse conjures up effects of great beauty in both the ear and the imagination.” ( The Independent)
Read more about John Burnside....
BBC News –
John Burnside wins Forward Poetry Prize Posted 5th October 2011
Guardian Podcast - John Burnside talks about Black Cat Bone at Forward Poetry Prize Ceremony. Posted October 7th 2011
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