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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T.S. Eliot Prize | 2011 | Winner |
About This Book
John Burnside's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection draws on American blues music, folk mythology, and the uncanny to explore identity, the natural world, and the lurking strangeness beneath ordinary life. The poems are hypnotic, unsettling, and formally assured.
About the Author
John Burnside is a Scottish poet, novelist, and memoirist known for his exploration of the natural world, psychology, and the uncanny. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for Black Cat Bone (Cape Poetry) and is also a winner of the Forward Prize. Read more →
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