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John Burnside is the author of nine collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside has achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T.S. Eliot prizes. Born in Scotland, he moved away in 1965, returning to settle there in 1995. In the intervening period he worked as a factory hand, a labourer, a gardener and, for ten years, as a computer systems designer. He now lives in Fife with his wife and children and teaches Creative Writing, Literature and Ecology courses at the University of St. Andrews. [Author photo © Norman McBeath]
2006
1997
2011
2014
2017
Essays on Mortality and Extinction
2021
2011
2000
2025
2007
2017
2014
1996
2017
2002
Or, How to Be an Anarchist
2018
2024
2006
Geschichten über die Liebe
2022
2013
2017
1995
2000
2007
1997
2025
A Novel
2008
2005
2009
2002
1999
Poetry in the Twentieth Century
2019
