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John Burnside

Scottish writer and academic

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born
1955
died
2024
age at death
69
known for
poet, university teacher, writer

1955 – 2024

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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 – 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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