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John Burnside

John Burnside lives in East Fife, Scotland, where he teaches at the University of St. Andrews. His fifth novel, The Devil’s Footprints, and a collection of poems, Gift Songs, were published by Jonathan Cape in spring 2007.

John Burnside on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Poetry | Issue 122 padlock
Poetry | Issue 122 padlock

Postscript

John Burnside

'the trees / are slender in the way that things / are almost, though not quite / absent'

Poetry | Issue 122
Poetry | Issue 122

The Day Etta Died

John Burnside

‘I was marking a stack of essays / on Frank O’Hara / and each had a Wiki- / paragraph to say / who Genet was.’

Poetry | Issue 122
Poetry | Issue 122

Self-Portrait as Amnesiac

John Burnside

‘Shoeboxes lined with eggs and empty / pomegranates drying in a bowl, / mousebones and wicker, chess pieces, muddled coats.’

Art & Photography | Issue 119 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 119 padlock

Home

John Burnside & et al

Home is makeshift. Everything we build, everything we name, everything we hold dear and would not have taken from us is temporary and in constant need of re-imagining.

In Conversation | Issue 119
In Conversation | Issue 119

John Burnside | Interview

John Burnside & Rachael Allen

‘Marx said the forest only echoes back what you shout into it – and this is very often true, perhaps more often than not, but I think the poet’s task is to suggest that it needn’t be.’

Fiction | Issue 119 padlock
Fiction | Issue 119 padlock

The Limeroom

John Burnside

‘I was discovering this deep reserve of patience I never knew I had, and I was surprised at how rich it was.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 119 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 119 padlock

How to Fly

John Burnside

‘I flew for the first time when I was nine years old.’

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