John Burnside Quote

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

John Burnside

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

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About John Burnside

John Burnside (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) 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.