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Versuch über das Licht

John Burnside ist nicht nur ein großartiger Romanautor, sondern auch der bedeutendste schottische Dichter der Gegenwart. Burnsides Lyrik handelt von einfachen Ereignissen: eine Hafenszene, eine Zugfahrt, Tiere, die durch das Licht der Scheinwerfer huschen. Seine Betrachtungen der Natur – seien es Wasserlandschaften in Schottland oder der Gesang einer Amsel – sind Fragen nach dem Rätsel des Seins, gestellt in unaufdringlichem Ton. Mit einer luziden, leuchtenden Sprache erkundet Burnside in seinen Gedichten den unsichtbaren Raum zwischen den Dingen an der Schwelle des Unerhörten.

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2011

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John Burnside

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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]

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