John Burnside

Articles by John Burnside

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When the lights went out

  • 05 February 2012

"The third life"

  • 09 January 2012

Layers of life beneath our feet

  • 12 December 2011

We are never entirely cut off from wild nature even though we feel disconnected from it, writes John Burnside. And our relationship to history is strangely similar.

Where the wild things aren’t

  • 16 November 2011

"Pink Footed Geese at Over Kellie"

  • 20 October 2011

The Iron Lady’s lethal legacy

  • 01 March 2010

Corby was once a thriving town, but then a Tory government set about “deindustrialising” the steel region, and killed its soul.

An essay on narrative

  • 26 March 2007

Poet and novelist John Burnside is one of Scotland's best-known writers. This new sequence of poems is exclusive to the NS

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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