In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men - lonely, unfaithful, dying - driving empty...

Trade paperback. A new collection of poetry from the Scottish poet and prose writer. Burnside's "Black Cat Bone" won both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. 'A master of language.' Hilary Mantel von Burnside, John

A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest contemporary writers. At a critical point in her career, painter Angelika Rossdal suddenly moves to Kvaloya, a small island deep in the Arctic Circle, to dedicate herself to...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century. von Burnside, John

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His territory is the no-man's-land of threshold...

John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and...

Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness. Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, John Burnside's first collection of...

Im Buch "Glister" von John Burnside folgen wir der jungen Protagonistin Glister, die in einer heruntergekommenen und vergifteten Industriestadt lebt. Die Stadt ist ein Ort, an dem Kinder verschwinden und eine geheimnisvolle Krankheit die...

»Von Gräsern, Nüssen und Fliegen« - die schönsten Naturgedichte der WeltSelten stand die Natur so sehr im Fokus staunender Neugier wie heute. Unsere Sehnsucht nach einem Gegengewicht zur fortschreitenden Vermessung der Welt lenkt unseren...

A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening...

Beginning with memories of a brutal murder, this book takes you through a series of uncanny encounters with 'lost girls', with brilliant digressions on murder ballads, voodoo, acid and insomnia. von Burnside, John

Seit dem Herbst 2016 gibt es in Deutschland ein Haus für Poesie. Diesen Namen hat sich die Literaturwerkstatt Berlin gegeben, die sich seit langem mit dem »poesiefestival berlin«, mit dem Gedichteportal lyrikonline.org und zahlreichen...