John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

Penguin Modern Poets, Series II #9

by John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie

This volume offers a representation of the work of three Scottish poets, John Burnside, Robert Crawford and Kathleen Jamie. The poems were chosen by the poets themselves.

Genres: Poetry

149 pages, Paperback

First published August 29, 1996

About the author

John Burnside was a Scottish writer. He was the author of nine collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance which was also shortlisted for the Forward and T.S. Eliot prizes. He left Scotland in 1965, returning to settle there in 1995. In the intervening period he worked as a factory hand, a labourer, a gardener and, for ten years, as a computer systems designer. Laterly, he lived in Fife with his wife and children and taught Creative Writing, Literature and Ecology courses at the University of St. Andrews.

[Author photo © Norman McBeath]