If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

John Burnside

About John Burnside

Portrait of John Burnside

John Burnside FRSL FRSE (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for one book. In Burnside's case it was...