John Burnside
Articles by John Burnside
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Life & Society
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.
Society
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.
Poetry
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











