John Burnside
- January 11, 2024
- Poet
Quick Facts
| Full Name | John Burnside |
| Date Of Birth | Mar 19, 1955(1955-03-19) |
| Age | 69 |
| Birthplace | Dunfermline |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Birth City | Scotland |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
John Burnside Biography
| Birthday | Mar 19 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
John Burnside is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 19, 1955 in Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom. John Burnside (born 19 March 1955) is an Scottish writer who was born in Dunfermline. John Burnside is among only three poets (the other two of them being Ted Hughes and Sean O’Brien) to have been awarded each the T. S. Eliot Prize as well as the Forward Poetry Prize for the same work (Black Cat Bone).
Burnside’s work is influenced by his fascination with the environment, nature and ecological issues. The book of stories for short, Something Like Happy, was released in 2013.
Burnside has also been the writer of two short stories collections, Burning Elvis (2000) as well as Something Like Happy (2013) and a number of novels which include The Dumb House (1997), The Devil’s Footprints, (2007), Glister, (2009) and A Summer of Drowning, (2011). The multi-award-winning memoir of his, A Lie About My Father was released in 2006, and the sequel Waking Up in Toytown in the year 2010. A second memoir, I Put a Spell On You, combined his personal stories with reflections on romance, magic, and pop music. The short stories as well as feature essays have appeared in a variety of journals and magazines which include The New Yorker, The Guardian and The London Review of Books as well as other publications. He also writes a regular nature column for the New Statesman. In 2011, he was awarded the Petrarca-Preis the most prestigious German international literary award.
John Burnside Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
John Burnside is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Burnside 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Burnside has studied English in addition to European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. An engineer for computer software and freelance since 1996. He was a writer on Residence with The University of Dundee and is currently Professor of Creative Writing at St Andrews University. In his position, he is a teacher of literary writing, creative writing, ecology, as well as American poetry. The first collection of his poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 , and was the recipient of the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other collections of poetry comprise Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000) which was the winner of The Asylum Dance, winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry collection of the year) as well as The T. S. Eliot Prize. Light Trap (2001) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. The 2011 collection, Black Cat Bone, was presented with The Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
He is an Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1999) and in the month of March was appointed to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy for science and letters.
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What is history by John Burnside about?
Within ‘History’ Burnside explores themes of war, loss, and human nature. The mood is solemn throughout with a few more peaceful and wistful sections woven in. Even when the mood lightens and the speaker depicts a scene that is more peaceful, it is never without the presence of darkness.
When was history by John Burnside written?
The poem is, significantly, dated September 2001 , soon after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New…
What is the poem the gun about?
The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver tells of the changes that came over a relationship after a gun, shooting, and then hunting were introduced to a household. The poem begins with the speaker telling the reader how the listener, “you,” brought a gun into the home.
What is to my nine year old self about?
“To My Nine-Year-Old Self” is written in the form of a dramatic monologue delivered by an adult woman speaking to her nine-year-old self. The setting of the poem is metaphorical; the speaker is not literally traveling through time, but rather is envisioning talking to the girl she once was.
What is Enjambment poem?
Enjambment, from the French meaning “a striding over,” is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly and swiftly—without interruption—to the next line of the poem.