Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
John Burnside
Born: March 19, 1955
Died: May 29, 2024 (aged 69)
Bio: John Burnside was a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. He was one of only two poets to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book.
Known for:
- A Lie About My Father (2006)
- The Dumb House (1997)
- Waking Up in Toytown (2010)
- A Summer of Drowning (2011)
- Glister (2008)