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John Burnside
Scottish writer and academic
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dead
- born
- 1955
- died
- 2024
- age at death
- 69
- known for
- poet, university teacher, writer
1955 β 2024

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who john burnside is
John Burnside was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book β in this case, for Black Cat Bone in 2011. In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize in recognition of his full body of work.
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