![]() ![]() His 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, was awarded The Forward Prize and the T.S. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. Other poetry collections include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. ![]() His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. ![]() A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996. He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book ( Black Cat Bone).īurnside was born in Dunfermline and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. ![]()
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