John Burnside

John Burnside’s most recent collection is Still Life with Feeding Snake.

In the LRB Archive:

• Poem: ‘Want of Understanding’ · 22 November 2018

• Diary: Visits from the Night Hag · 27 September 2018

• Two Poems · 7 September 2017

• Poem: ‘Wedding Season’ · 17 August 2017

• Poem: ‘Arthur Rimbaud at Scamblesby, 1873’ · 5 January 2017

• Poem: ‘To the Snow Queen’ · 22 September 2016

• Poem: ‘Crane Watching in Ostprignitz-Ruppin, November 2014’ · 19 May 2016

• Poem: ‘Abiding Memories of Christian Zeal’ · 18 February 2016

• Poem: ‘George and the Dragon’ · 22 October 2015

• Poem: ‘Mother as Script and Ideal’ · 4 June 2015

• Two Poems · 19 March 2015

• Poem: ‘The Lazarus Taxa’ · 5 February 2015

• Diary: Death and Photography · 18 December 2014

• Three Poems · 11 September 2014

• Poem: ‘Erosion’ · 5 December 2013

• Three Poems · 12 September 2013

• A Winter Mind · 25 April 2013

• Three Poems · 30 August 2012

• Alone · 9 February 2012

• Two Poems · 26 January 2012

• Two Poems · 28 July 2011

• Two Poems · 30 June 2011

• I put a spell on you: Murder in Corby · 2 June 2011

• Poem: ‘Narrative’ · 17 March 2011

• Two Poems · 7 October 2010

• Three Poems · 25 March 2010

• Who Chose Them?: A Memoir · 10 September 2009

• Two Poems · 6 August 2009

• Two Poems · 4 December 2008

• Losing Helen: A Memoir · 24 April 2008

• Poem: ‘An Essay Concerning Light’ · 20 March 2008

• Two Poems · 1 December 2005

• Poem: ‘Old Man, Swimming’ · 4 August 2005

• Poem: ‘Responses to Augustine of Hippo. Part 3: De libero arbitrio’ · 19 May 2005

• Poem: ‘Homage to Greta Garbo’ · 2 September 2004

• Poem: ‘Shapeshifters’ · 1 April 2004

• Poem: ‘Haar’ · 8 January 2004

• Two Poems · 11 September 2003

• Poem: ‘Pentecost’ · 19 June 2003

• Poem: ‘De Anima’ · 6 March 2003

• Poem: ‘By Kautokeino’ · 17 October 2002

• Poem: ‘The Last Man to Speak Ubykh’ · 22 August 2002

• Poem: ‘The Archaeology of Childhood’ · 23 May 2002

• Poem: ‘The Inner Ear’ · 13 December 2001

• Two Poems · 20 September 2001

• Poem: ‘Koi’ · 5 April 2001

• Poem: ‘Roads’ · 9 December 1999

• Lustmord: Fred and Rosemary West · 10 December 1998

  • Happy like Murderers by Gordon Burn

• Two Poems · 29 October 1998

• Poem: ‘Fields’ · 16 July 1998

• Poem: ‘Settlements’ · 16 April 1998

• Poem: ‘Ports’ · 21 August 1997

• Poem: ‘Heimwhe’ · 20 February 1997

• Two Poems · 23 January 1997

• Poem: ‘Shiochie’s Hill, Dunkeld’ · 31 October 1996

• Six Poems · 4 April 1996

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