John Burnside Quotes


Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.


Citations

Burnside, John. Something Like Happy. Jonathan Cape, 2013.

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John Burnside
John Burnside
  • Born: March 19, 1955
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Writer

John Burnside FRSL FRSE is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (Black Cat Bone).