The poet: John Burnside

John Burnside was born in 1955 and now lives in Fife. He has published ten collections of poetry, most recently The Good Neighbour (Jonathan Cape, 2005) and Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2006).

His seventh collection, The Asylum Dance, won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prize. He has also published five works of fiction, including, most recently, Living Nowhere (2004), and the memoir A Lie About My Father (2006). 

Selected publications

The Hoop (Carcanet, 1988)
Common Knowledge (Secker & Warburg, 1991)
Feast Days (Secker & Warburg, 1992)
The Myth of the Twin (Cape, 1994)
Swimming in the Flood (Cape, 1995)
Penguin Modern Poets 9 (John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie) (Penguin, 1996)
A Normal Skin (Cape, 1997)
The Dumb House (Cape, 1997)
The Process of Separation (Cape, 1997)
The Mercy Boys (Cape, 1999)
Burning Elvis (Cape, 2000)
Love for Love: An Anthology of Love Poems (ed) (Polygon, 2000)
The Asylum Dance (Cape, 2000)
The Light Trap (Cape, 2001)
The Locust Room (Cape, 2001)
Living Nowhere (Cape, 2003)
The Good Neighbour (Cape, 2005)
A Lie About My Father (Cape, 2006)
Selected Poems (Cape, 2006)

Related links

John Burnside in Poets A-Z

Aislinn Hunter in Poets A-Z