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...