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My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible.

John Burnside

And because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.

John Burnside

That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.

John Burnside

John Burnside

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)

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