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John Burnside has published eleven previous collections of poetry, including among them The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award, and six works of fiction - most recently the novel, A Summer of Drowning, which came out in 2011. He has also written two books of memoirs, A Lie About My Father and Waking Up In Toytown. His latest collection, Black Cat Bone, won both the Forward Prize for Poetry 2011 and the T.S. Eliot Prize 2011.
The unmistakable work of a master -- Bernard O'donoghue Times Literary Supplement A tour de force of liminal expression... Burnside is not a wispily ethereal poet. A stretch of country crossed during the hunt is captured in oils, not in thin watercolours...poignantly luminous...[an] engrossing collection -- M. Wynn Thomas Guardian Black Cat Bone is a deserving winner of this year's Forward Prize for best collection. John Burnside's twelfth volume adds to and deepens a body of poetry that is already exceptionally significant - and utterly recognisable. A musician and chromaticist, he's a poet whose rapt, floating verse conjures up effects of great beauty in both the ear and the imagination -- Fiona Sampson Independent A haunting book of great beauty, powered by love, childhood memory, human longing and loneliness. In an exceptional year, it is an outstanding book, one which the judges felt grew with every reading -- Gillian Clarke, Chair Of The T.S. Eliot Prize One of the most gifted poets writing today -- Paul Batchelor Times Literary Supplement
