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Amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation, John Burnside has just been awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous other awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Petrarca Prize and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. His most recent books are The Music of Time- Poetry in the Twentieth Century and Aurochs and Auks- Essays on Mortality and Extinction. He is a professor in the School of English at St Andrews University.
For my money, John Burnside is by far the best British poet alive * Spectator * A master of language -- Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall The joy of Burnside's poems - and part of what makes them moving - is that he never stops registering the ways in which beauty makes life worth living * Observer * Burnside wrestles with hugeness in a way that few writers dare to do -- Ali Smith, author of Autumn One of the most gifted poets writing today * Times Literary Supplement * Burnside has a lovely garrulousness that is distinctively his own -- Tessa Hadley, author of Free Love John Burnside is a genius... He is constantly alive to alternative possibilities and versions of himself, as close yet unreachable as his own shadow. His responses to the world are so raw, it's as if he's missing a skin - or perhaps the rest of us have grown hides to make life manageable * Intelligent Life * A musician and chromaticist, he is a poet whose rapt, floating verse conjures up effects of great beauty in both the ear and imagination -- Fiona Sampson, author of In Search of Mary Shelley
