John Burnside

Pop in to Belmont Filmhouse during your lunch hour, take a break from shopping or meet up with some friends for a relaxing hour of writers’ talks.

John Burnside is one of Scotland’s finest writers, as accomplished as he is prolific. His output includes award-winning volumes of poetry, fiction and memoir. He has won the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize (one of only two poets to win both with the same book) as well as the Whitbread Book Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. His most recent publications are the poetry collection Black Cat Bone, a book of stories, Something Like Happy, and a second volume of autobiography Waking Up in Toytown.