John Burnside is a poet, novelist, and memoirist whose many books include
Still Life with Feeding Snake and
On Henry Miller (Princeton). He has won many awards for his poetry, including the T. S. Eliot, Forward, Whitbread, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. He is professor of English at the University of St Andrews and a regular contributor to the
London Review of Books. He lives in Arncroach, Scotland.
40 Ebooks door John Burnside
John Burnside: The Music of Time
A revelatory and deeply personal history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet O …
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John Burnside: On Henry Miller
An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller—and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape “the air-conditioned nightmare” of the modern world The American writer Henry Miller’s …
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John Burnside: Glister
»Ein magisch geheimnisvolles Buch, das in abgründigen Bildern eine Parabel unserer Zeit erzählt.« Hamburger Abendblatt
In einer trostlosen englischen Kleinstadt verschwinden immer wieder Jungen s …
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John Burnside: Lügen über meinen Vater
Eine Geschichte von alttestamentarischer Wucht – John Burnsides großer Text über seinen Hass auf den Vater
Am Ende wünscht John Burnside seinem Vater nur noch den Tod. Er hat für den Mann, der üb …
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John Burnside: Haus der Stummen
Psychologische Spannung literarisch verdichtet – John Burnsides erster Roman endlich auch auf Deutsch.
John Burnside ist einer der faszinierendsten Literaten unserer Zeit, der in seinen Werken im …
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John Burnside: Die Spur des Teufels
»Einer der brillantesten Romanciers unserer Zeit.« Die Weltwoche
Michael Gardiner lebt mit seiner Frau zurückgezogen am Rande des schottischen Küstenortes Coldhaven. Eines Morgens liest er in der …
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John Burnside: Wie alle anderen
Von Kritikern und Lesern gefeiert: nach »Lügen über meinen Vater« der zweite Band von Burnsides autobiografischer Reihe
Nach Jahren des Vorsatzes, niemals so zu werden wie sein Vater, muss sich J …
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John Burnside: Ashland & Vine
Der große Amerikaroman von John Burnside
Mit dem Mord an ihrem Vater, Rechtsanwalt und Gegner der Rassentrennung, endet die behütete Kindheit der jungen Jean. In ihrer Lebensgeschichte spiegeln s …
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John Burnside: Über Liebe und Magie – I Put a Spell on You
Ein ganz besonderes literarisches Memoir über die Liebe mit ihren Licht- und Schattenseiten
Der hochgelobte schottische Autor John Burnside blickt zurück auf sein Leben und erzählt von den vielen …
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John Burnside: »Wo die Exekutive ihre Finger einzieht«?/»Where executives would never want to tamper«?
Seit dem Herbst 2016 gibt es in Deutschland ein Haus für Poesie. Diesen Namen hat sich die Literaturwerkstatt Berlin gegeben, die sich seit langem mit dem »poesiefestival berlin«, mit dem …
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John Burnside: Essay on Mourning
This pocketsized paperback is one of the twentyfour titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most …
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John Burnside: The Hunt in the Forest
Taking its title from Uccello”s famous painting of a band of men – on foot and on horseback – massing for the chase, John Burnside”s new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the dar …
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John Burnside: Glister
The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these …
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John Burnside: A Lie About My Father
A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundlin …
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John Burnside: Gift Songs
To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song”s goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to ”labour to make the way of God your own”, Shaker artists expressed an a …
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John Burnside: Waking Up in Toytown
In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a ”Surbiton of the mind”. But the suburbs a …
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John Burnside: The Dumb House
As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence, designed to test the innateness of language. As Luke grows up, his interest …
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John Burnside: The Asylum Dance
Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance – which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry – are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape. This …
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John Burnside: The Devil”s Footprints
Once, on a winter”s night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the …
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John Burnside: Living Nowhere
Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces – in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, …
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John Burnside: Black Cat Bone
John Burnside”s remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking …
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John Burnside: Locust Room
Twenty five years ago, during the spring and summer of 1975, a rapist stalked the streets of Cambridge, attacking young, single women in their bed-sits and flats and subjecting them to horrifying and …
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John Burnside: Normal Skin
From memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover’s navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquarium fish, the poems in A …
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John Burnside: Burning Elvis
As he sets out on his first adventure in life, a young man enters the dark realm of adult violence; a married suburbanite longs for the wide, mysterious world that seems to hover just beyond the next …
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John Burnside: Selected Poems
Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside has built – in the words of Bernard O’Donoghue – ‘a poetic corpus of the first significance’, a poetry of luminous, limpid grace. His …
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John Burnside: Swimming In The Flood
A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside’s …
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John Burnside: A Summer of Drowning
A young girl, Liv, lives with her mother on a remote island in the Arctic Circle. Her only friend is an old man who beguiles her with tales of trolls, mermaids, and the huldra, a wild spirit who appe …
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John Burnside: Mercy Boys
The Mercy Boys are four Dundee men who meet every day in their local pub and drink: first to find order, then oblivion. Each has his own ghosts, his dreams of escape. But when death comes to the …
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John Burnside: Something Like Happy
In these remarkable stories, John Burnside takes us into the lives of men and women trapped in marriage, ensnared by drink, diminished by disappointment; all kinds of women, all kinds of men – lonely …
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John Burnside: All One Breath
Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful …
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John Burnside: I Put a Spell on You
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge. This is a memoir of romance of lost love …
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John Burnside: Ashland & Vine
Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can stay sober for …
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John Burnside: What light there is
JOHN BURNSIDES HYMNE AUF DIE MAGIE DER VERGÄNGLICHKEIT: EINBLICK IN EINEN SCHARFEN GEIST UND EINE EMPFINDSAME SEELE.
John Burnside – ein virtuoser Verehrer des Flüchtigen
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John Burnside: Learning to Sleep
Lucid, lyrical and intellectually profound: this collection of poems resonates with real life and death, but mostly what falls in between: the charmed darkness.Several ghosts haunt Learning to Sleep, …
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John Burnside: The Music of Time
A Financial Times Book of the Year Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning poin …
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John Burnside: So etwas wie Glück
Die ganze Verletzlichkeit des Lebens in nur einem Moment
Was macht eine gute Beziehung aus? Was ist Liebe – und was nicht? John Burnsides Geschichten tauchen in das Leben von Männern und Frauen …
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Best British Short Stories 2011
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year …
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John Burnside: Ruin, Blossom
A remarkable new collection exploring ageing, mortality and environmental destruction – from our finest Scottish lyric poet**WINNER OF THE DAVID COHEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023**’By far the best …
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