John Burnside, the multi-award-winning Scottish poet and novelist, has died aged 69. The news was announced by his publisher Jonathan Cape on Friday (31 May). In a statement, the publisher confirmed ...

While John Burnside listed The Hoop (1988) as his first book, before that collection of poems there had been Homing (1983), co-published by Richard Burns at Los Poetry Press and me at Menard Press.

The Scottish writer, whose career spanned more than 35 years, was one of only four people to have won both of the UK’s most prestigious poetry prizes for the same book The books of my life: John ...

John Burnside, longtime partner of the late legendary gay activist Harry Hay, died Sept. 14 in San Francisco of brain cancer. He was 91. Burnside was one of the founders of the gay group Radical ...

Multi-award-winning Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside has died aged 69. His publisher Jonathan Cape announced the poet’s death on Friday afternoon. In a statement the publisher confirmed ...

Award-winning author and poet John Burnside died, aged 69, on 29th May following a short illness, Jonathan Cape has announced. The publisher said it was “devastated” by the news and said: “We have ...

As well as his many collections of poetry, Burnside was the author of several novels, two collections of short stories and three books of memoir. Reviewing A Lie about My Father in 2006, Hilary Mantel ...

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