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  1. 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)

    penguin.co.uk/books/412331/bla

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #art #visualart #Bruegel #winter #JohnBurnside

  2. “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.

    newstatesman.com/culture/2024/

    #Scottish #literature #poetry #shortstories #novel #Burnside #JohnBurnside