John Burnside is a poet and novelist, born in Dunfermline, Scotland. The author of 21 books, he has won, among other prizes, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Feast Days (1992) and the Whitbread Poetry Award for The Asylum Dance (2000). George Szirtes has said of him: ‘his imagination relies on metamorphoses, hints of witchcraft, on notions and dreams of gender and family, and exile from these ... its antennae are tuned to the buzz and flap of nature’. Burnside lives in Fife. His memoir, A Lie About My Father, and a Selected Poems were published in 2006. His most recent publications are a book of poetry, Gift Songs (2007), and a novel The Devil’s Footprints (2007). His new novel Glister will be published in 2008.
John Burnside will be appearing in the following events:
17. An Hour With John Burnside
Friday 16 May | 10:00 - 11:00am
34. Open Mike
Saturday 17 May | 10:00am - 2:00pm
47. Laughing Mirror
Saturday 17 May | 7:00 - 8:30pm
59. The Whole Truth?
Sunday 18 May | 4:00 - 5:00pm