John Burnside was an internationally celebrated poet, novelist, memoirist, writer of short stories and academic works, and the recipient of many major awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011, Black Cat Bone won both the T. S. Eliot and the Forward prizes. The...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). John Burnside won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2011 for Black Cat Bone (Cape Poetry), a...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2012. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that John Burnside has won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011 with Black Cat Bone, published by Cape Poetry. The...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2011. The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce the Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011. Judges Gillian Clarke (Chair), Stephen Knight and Dennis O’Driscoll have chosen six...
