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Like all those red-faced boys
in brand-new football stripsdribbling a ball around
in a circle of streetlightor practicing their footwork
in the parkin Cowdenbeath, Arbroath,
Kirkcudbright, Govan,I wanted the triumph of willpower
over strengthgrace over
money…—John Burnside, “Euro 96: A Fan’s Farewell”
A poem for World Football Day ⚽
https://www.un.org/en/observances/football-day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JohnBurnside #football #soccer #WorldFootballDay
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Like all those red-faced boys
in brand-new football stripsdribbling a ball around
in a circle of streetlightor practicing their footwork
in the parkin Cowdenbeath, Arbroath,
Kirkcudbright, Govan,I wanted the triumph of willpower
over strengthgrace over
money…—John Burnside, “Euro 96: A Fan’s Farewell”
A poem for World Football Day ⚽
https://www.un.org/en/observances/football-day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JohnBurnside #football #soccer #WorldFootballDay
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Like all those red-faced boys
in brand-new football stripsdribbling a ball around
in a circle of streetlightor practicing their footwork
in the parkin Cowdenbeath, Arbroath,
Kirkcudbright, Govan,I wanted the triumph of willpower
over strengthgrace over
money…—John Burnside, “Euro 96: A Fan’s Farewell”
A poem for World Football Day ⚽
https://www.un.org/en/observances/football-day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JohnBurnside #football #soccer #WorldFootballDay
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Like all those red-faced boys
in brand-new football stripsdribbling a ball around
in a circle of streetlightor practicing their footwork
in the parkin Cowdenbeath, Arbroath,
Kirkcudbright, Govan,I wanted the triumph of willpower
over strengthgrace over
money…—John Burnside, “Euro 96: A Fan’s Farewell”
A poem for World Football Day ⚽
https://www.un.org/en/observances/football-day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JohnBurnside #football #soccer #WorldFootballDay
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Like all those red-faced boys
in brand-new football stripsdribbling a ball around
in a circle of streetlightor practicing their footwork
in the parkin Cowdenbeath, Arbroath,
Kirkcudbright, Govan,I wanted the triumph of willpower
over strengthgrace over
money…—John Burnside, “Euro 96: A Fan’s Farewell”
A poem for World Football Day ⚽
https://www.un.org/en/observances/football-day
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #JohnBurnside #football #soccer #WorldFootballDay
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Der Baucan- Von John Burnside – Regie Klaus Buhlert
SWR Kultur – Montag, 25. Mai 2026 um 18:20 Uhr
»Schottlands Anderwelt ist unbeschreiblich grün und geheimnisvoll. In Wäldern und auf Wiesen leben Brownies – das sind Feen im braunen Mäntelchen, Kobolde oder ein anderer Unhold, namens Baucan, der durch Geräusche oder sein Schweigen auffällig wird – einmal Mann, dann wieder Frau. Dann unsichtbar. Aber immer präsent und effektiv in seinem Wirken … Je nach Bedarf und Eigensinn.
Schottlands Wälder und seine Wiesen gehören Wenigen. Das war schon immer so. Wird auch immer so bleiben. Hin und wieder braucht Sir Landlord noch ein wenig mehr Geld. Dann will er auf den Wiesen Wohnblöcke oder Müllverbrennungsanlagen errichten. Die Schotten der Anderwelt werden nicht gefragt. Sie werden beschissen – genau wie der zurückgezogen lebende namenlose Aussteiger in John Burnsides Stück beschissen werden soll. Die Wiese ist alles, was er hat. Götter sind es nicht, die helfen. Die Beiden selbst müssen ihr bedrohtes Paradies vom Müll der Gegenwart befreien. Ein selten seltsames akustisches Biotop musste da zusammengefügt werden, auf ganz schottische Art und irgendwie analog zu Stevensons Novelle “Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde”. Aber bei Burnside überwinden ein schottischer Eigenbrötler und ein mythischer Unhold ihre gottgegebenen Grenzen – und so etwas musste nach meiner Vorstellung ebenso für ihre klanglich, akustischen Welten möglich sein …« Klaus Buhlert
https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/hoerspiel/der-baucan-hoerspiel-2026-05-25-100.html
#Akustik #Anderwelt #DerBaucan #Hören #Hörspiel #JohnBurnside #Klang #KlausBuhlert #News #Schottland #SWRKultur #Termin -
Der Baucan- Von John Burnside – Regie Klaus Buhlert
SWR Kultur – Montag, 25. Mai 2026 um 18:20 Uhr
»Schottlands Anderwelt ist unbeschreiblich grün und geheimnisvoll. In Wäldern und auf Wiesen leben Brownies – das sind Feen im braunen Mäntelchen, Kobolde oder ein anderer Unhold, namens Baucan, der durch Geräusche oder sein Schweigen auffällig wird – einmal Mann, dann wieder Frau. Dann unsichtbar. Aber immer präsent und effektiv in seinem Wirken … Je nach Bedarf und Eigensinn.
Schottlands Wälder und seine Wiesen gehören Wenigen. Das war schon immer so. Wird auch immer so bleiben. Hin und wieder braucht Sir Landlord noch ein wenig mehr Geld. Dann will er auf den Wiesen Wohnblöcke oder Müllverbrennungsanlagen errichten. Die Schotten der Anderwelt werden nicht gefragt. Sie werden beschissen – genau wie der zurückgezogen lebende namenlose Aussteiger in John Burnsides Stück beschissen werden soll. Die Wiese ist alles, was er hat. Götter sind es nicht, die helfen. Die Beiden selbst müssen ihr bedrohtes Paradies vom Müll der Gegenwart befreien. Ein selten seltsames akustisches Biotop musste da zusammengefügt werden, auf ganz schottische Art und irgendwie analog zu Stevensons Novelle „Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde“. Aber bei Burnside überwinden ein schottischer Eigenbrötler und ein mythischer Unhold ihre gottgegebenen Grenzen – und so etwas musste nach meiner Vorstellung ebenso für ihre klanglich, akustischen Welten möglich sein …« Klaus Buhlert
https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/hoerspiel/der-baucan-hoerspiel-2026-05-25-100.html
#Akustik #Anderwelt #DerBaucan #Hören #Hörspiel #JohnBurnside #Klang #KlausBuhlert #News #Schottland #SWRKultur #Termin -
Where to start with John Burnside
Seán Hewitt guides readers through John Burnside’s landmark works, in poetry & prose
10/10
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/11/where-to-start-with-john-burnside
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When we are gone
our lives will continue without us– or so we believe and,
at times, we have tried to imagine …—“Afterlife” by John Burnside (1955–2024)
published in GIFT SONGS (Jonathan Cape, 2007)9/10
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“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.”
—“Borderlands”, by John Burnside
8/10
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/borderlands-by-john-burnside/
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“Like Rilke, John managed to be earthy while expanding our imaginative reach into the angelic orders. His poems acted on one like a drug… one might emerge blinking and wondering, ‘Where have I just been?’”
—Kathleen Jamie on John Burnside
7/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/06/john-burnsides-soul-music
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Had I been less prepared, I would have left
in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard
was still in bloom,
the windows open after months of snow,
one magpie in the road
and then another…—John Burnside, “The Night Ferry”
Published in the London Review of Books, December 20206/10
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n24/john-burnside/the-night-ferry
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“Burnside’s work has always been about moments of transformation, or change, the endlessly metamorphic adaptability of human identity… solitude & silence bring one back to the world”
—David Borthwick explores solitude & silence in the work of John Burnside
5/10
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“THE DUMB HOUSE is a wonderfully disturbing book – chillingly focused and lyrically amoral with moments of remarkable stillness and beauty”
John Burnside wrote 11 novels. Ian Scott at the National Library of Scotland looks at his first: THE DUMB HOUSE (1997)
4/10
https://blog.nls.uk/john-burnsides-first-novel-the-dumb-house/
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It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees and the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading and blurred with rain…—John Burnside, “Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012”
published in BLACK MIDDENS: New Writing Scotland 31 (ASL, 2013)3/10
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“I think John was drawn to that notion of a conjured charm or presence that came from the spirit-world… He told me once that poetry was, for him, a form of alchemy.”
—Robin Robertson reflects on the life & work of John Burnside for the Poetry Foundation
2/10
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
1/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
1/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
1/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
1/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. His career as an author & poet spanned nearly 40 years
1/10
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #novels #JohnBurnside #Scottishness #ScottishIdentity
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Let us remember
the stillborn: how theycede their places here
with such good gracethat no one ever
speaks of themagain…
—John Burnside, “A Footnote to Colossians”
published in RUIN, BLOSSOM (Penguin, 2024)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/456120/ruin-blossom-by-burnside-john/9781529909258
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Learn from this picture how we journey in this world
Slithering as we go, the foolish and the wise…—John Burnside, “Pieter Brueghel: Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap, 1565”
from BLACK CAT BONE (Jonathan Cape, 2011)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/412331/black-cat-bone-by-john-burnside/9780224093859
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #art #visualart #Bruegel #winter #JohnBurnside
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Today's poem:
At Notre Dame de Reims
- by John Burnsidehttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/802630239647842304/at-notre-dame-de-reims?source=share
#poetry #JohnBurnside #reims #cathedral #StoneMasons #art #creativity #messages #humour #irreverence
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Smoke in the woods
like someone walking in a silent film
beside the tracks…—John Burnside, “Signal Stop, Near Horsley”
published in SELECTED POEMS (Cape, 2006)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400/selected-poems-by-burnside-john/9780224078030
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At times I think what makes us who we are
is neither kinship nor our given states
but something lost between the world we own
and what we dream about behind the names
on days like this—John Burnside, “History”
Published in SELECTED POEMS (Jonathan Cape, 2006)https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/389400/selected-poems-by-burnside-john/9780224078030
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #September11 #history #JohnBurnside
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“His life’s work is like a dark, glittering, ethereal yet earthy river of thought, full of angels, ghosts, nocturnes, animals. These are books as brimming with spirit & light as they are with eroticism & violence”
—Seán Hewitt on John Burnside’s poetry & fiction
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/11/where-to-start-with-john-burnside
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It gets late early out here
in the lacklustre places,
wind in the trees and the foodstalls’
ricepaper lamplight, fading and blurred with rain…—John Burnside, “Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012”
published in BLACK MIDDENS: New Writing Scotland 31 (ASL, 2013) -
“It’s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside, and impossible not to be more scared and saddened while doing so. He was the ideal laureate of our age, painfully alive to the glory of what we’re losing.”
—Sarah Crown reviews John Burnside’s posthumously published final poetry collection THE EMPIRE OF FORGETTING
#Scottish #literature #contemporary #poetry #anthropocene #naturewriting #JohnBurnside
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"Give me a little less
with every dawn."Marjorie Lotfi performs John Burnside's "Prayer" in a film directed by Savannah Acquah, from a new series from the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation & the Writers’ Mosaic
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From the Scottish Poetry Library archives: poet & novelist John Burnside discusses fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland, Burnside talks about poetry & visual art, the poet as nomad, & “feeding the dead”
https://splpodcast.podbean.com/e/john-burnside-on-ws-graham
#Scottish #literature #poetry #visualart #poets #JohnBurnside #WSGraham
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Had I been less prepared, I would have left
in springtime, when the plum tree in the yard
was still in bloom,
the windows open after months of snow,
one magpie in the road
and then another…—John Burnside, “The Night Ferry”
published in the London Review of Books, December 2020https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n24/john-burnside/the-night-ferry
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Somewhere along this street, unknown to me,
behind a maze of apple trees and stars,
he rises in the small hours, finds a book
and settles at a window or a desk
to see the morning in, alone for once,
unnamed, unburdened, happy in himself…—John Burnside, “The Good Neighbour”
published in THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR (Cape, 2005)Hear John Burnside read this poem on the Poetry Archive:
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“Borderlands are sites of mystery, but they are also theatres where, as often as not, tragedy unfolds… where the dead still linger and the living come, on special occasions, to grieve.”
—John Burnside, “Borderlands”
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/borderlands-by-john-burnside/
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“Scottishness is as much myth as it is history, which means that we must guard it carefully, retell it beautifully &, more than anything else, love it wisely.”
John Burnside (1955–2024) was born #OTD, 19 March. He published prolifically across many forms – chiefly as a poet, but also as a novelist, memoirist, writer of short stories & academic works – over a career spanning nearly forty years.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/07/in-search-of-a-homeland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #shortstories #novel #Burnside #JohnBurnside
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We Are Blessed by the Dead: Remembering John Burnside
“I think John was drawn to that notion of a conjured charm or presence that came from the spirit-world, and he watched for it constantly, that liminal light. He told me once that poetry was, for him, a form of alchemy.”
—Robin Robertson reflects on the life & work of his friend, the poet & author John Burnside
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Today's poem:
At Notre Dame de Reims
- at John Burnsidehttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767501164918013952/at-notre-dame-de-reims?source=share
#poetry #architecture #Reims #sculpture #stonemasonry #JohnBurnside #life #vitality #AncientGods #virility #christendom #control
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Today's poem:
At Notre Dame de Reims
- at John Burnsidehttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767501164918013952/at-notre-dame-de-reims?source=share
#poetry #architecture #Reims #sculpture #stonemasonry #JohnBurnside #life #vitality #AncientGods #virility #christendom #control
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Today's poem:
At Notre Dame de Reims
- at John Burnsidehttps://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/767501164918013952/at-notre-dame-de-reims?source=share
#poetry #architecture #Reims #sculpture #stonemasonry #JohnBurnside #life #vitality #AncientGods #virility #christendom #control
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A Celebration of John Burnside’s Life & Work
16 Oct, University of St AndrewsJohn Burnside was a poet, novelist, memoir & nature writer, & Professor of Creative Writing in the School of English at St Andrews.
The memorial service will take place in St Salvator’s Chapel & will be followed by a reception in Lower College Hall. All welcome.
#Scottish #literature #JohnBurnside #StAndrews
https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/a-celebration-of-john-burnsides-life-and-work/
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‘Last year John was awarded the David Cohen Prize, which recognises a lifetime’s achievement. Hugely deserved, but who knew his lifetime would so soon be over? His acceptance speech with readings, which is available to watch online, is profound. It is “wondrous and beauteous” – which is what he calls the world around us. It’s also funny, and elegiac.’
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‘Like Rilke, John managed to be earthy while expanding our imaginative reach into the angelic orders. His poems acted on one like a drug, a substance in the bloodstream. One would struggle to say what they were “about”. Rather, one might emerge blinking and wondering, “Where have I just been?”’
—Kathleen Jamie on John Burnside
#Scottish #literature #poetry #JohnBurnside
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/06/john-burnsides-soul-music
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John Burnside poems and books that celebrate his talent. The renowned poet passed away at the age of 69
"Flawed but fearless, fabulously gifted, he was a truly great writer."
#JohnBurnside #books #poems #poetry
https://howtobe247.com/john-burnside-poems-and-books-that-celebrate-his-talent/
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Bob tro yn braf i weld rhywun yn canu clod i #JohnCowperPowys, ond yn well byth pan mae’n rhywun ti wedi mwynhau darllen eisioes.
Y bardd o'r Alban, #JohnBurnside ar y llyfrau sy wedi’i lunio.
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Kennen wir uns schon?
EIN SOLO FÜR DIE PERLE!
JOHN BURNSIDE
So etwas wie Glück
Übers. Bernhard RobbenGefeiert und bekannt für seine Romane ebenso wie für seine Lyrik, läuft der schottische Schriftsteller John Burnside hier, in seinen Erzählungen, zu Hochform auf.
Dort gehts zum Buch:
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