John Burnside : Writing Across The Divide

An evening with acclaimed writer John Burnside at the British Library

John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation and held the 2013 Eccles British Library Writer's Award. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011 he became only the second person to win both the Forward and T S Eliot Prizes for poetry for the same book, Black Cat Bone. In 2015 he was a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He is a Professor in the School of English, St Andrews University. In this special London event he discusses his work across his career, as well as his two new books: the novel, Ashland & Vine, and the poetry collection, Still Life with Feeding Snake.

John will be in conversation with Christina Patterson. A writer, broadcaster and columnist, Christiana writes, for The Sunday Times and the Guardian, about society, culture, politics, books and the arts. She has been described by Clive James as ‘a wonderful, gutsy’ writer, and by the former poet laureate Andrew Motion as ‘one of the best columnists around’. Her book, The Art of Not Falling Apart, will be published by Atlantic in 2018.