John Burnside

Burnside was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/living-nowhere-by-john-burnside-110707.html |title=Living Nowhere by John Burnside |date=27 June 2003 |work=The Independent|first=Andrew |last=Cowan |access-date=2 June 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109222713/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/living-nowhere-by-john-burnside-110707.html|url-status=live}}{{cite book |last=Ferguson |first=Ron |title=Helicopter Dreams – the quest for the Holy Grail |year=2006 |publisher=Famedram |location=Ellon, UK |isbn=0905489-86-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/helicopterdreams0000ferg|pages=97–98}} He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he was a freelance writer after 1996.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1100253.stm |title=Whitbread winners profiled |publisher=BBC News |date=4 January 2001|access-date=4 June 2024}} He was a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and was Professor in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews,{{cite web |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/burnside/ |title=Staff Profile, University of St Andrews |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115051324/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/burnside/ |archive-date=15 November 2016}} where he taught creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry.{{cite web |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/john-burnside |title=Judges > John Burnside |publisher=Booker Prize |website=thebookerprizes.com |access-date=4 June 2024}}

His first collection of poetry, The Hoop, was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections by Burnside include Common Knowledge (1991), Feast Days (1992), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and The Asylum Dance (2000), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award and shortlisted for both the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the T. S. Eliot Prize. The Light Trap (2001) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Burnside was also the author of two collections of short stories, Burning Elvis (2000), and Something Like Happy (2013), as well as several novels, including The Dumb House (1997), The Devil's Footprints, (2007), Glister, (2009) and A Summer of Drowning, (2011). His multi-award winning memoir, A Lie About My Father, was published in 2006 and its successor, Waking Up In Toytown, in 2010.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/waking-up-in-toytown-by-john-burnside-5518950.html |title=Waking Up In Toytown, By John Burnside |first=Fiona |last=Sampson |work=The Independent |date=22 January 2010 |url-access=registration |access-date=4 June 2024}} A Lie About My Father earned him the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year in 2006, alongside the Sundial Scottish Arts Council Non-fiction Book of the Year and the CORINE International Literature Prize.{{cite web |title=Poet portrait unveiled by National Galleries {{!}} University of St Andrews news |url=https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/poet-portrait-unveiled-by-national-galleries/ |access-date=7 June 2024 |website=news.st-andrews.ac.uk}} In 2008 he won the Cholmondeley Award. A further memoir, I Put A Spell On You, combined personal history with reflections on romantic love, magic and popular music. His short stories and feature essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and The London Review of Books, among others. He also wrote an occasional nature column for the New Statesman. In 2011 he received the Petrarca-Preis, a major German international literary prize.{{cite news |url=https://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/schottische-poesie-und-slowenische-prosa-petrarca-preis_id_2091573.html |title=Schottische Poesie und slowenische Prosa |work=Focus |location=Germany |date=15 November 2013 |access-date=2 June 2024 |language=de}}

Burnside's work was inspired by his engagement with nature, environment and deep ecology.{{cite web |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Literature/People/B/BurnsideJohn/ |title=Profile of John Burnside |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |access-date=2 June 2024 |archive-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109222729/https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Literature/People/B/BurnsideJohn/ |url-status=live}} His collection of short stories, Something Like Happy, was published in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/19/something-like-happy-john-burnside-review |title=Something Like Happy by John Burnside – review |first=Stuart |last=Kelly |work=The Guardian |date=19 January 2013 |access-date=3 June 2024}}

Burnside was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1999){{cite web |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/john-burnside/ |title=Fellows > Burnside, John |date=September 2023 |publisher=Royal Society of Literature |access-date=4 June 2024}} and in March 2016 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html |title=The Royal Society of Edinburgh | 2016 Elected Fellows |access-date=8 March 2016 |archive-date=8 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008113046/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html |url-status=dead}}

He also lectured annually and oversaw the judging of the writing prize at the Alpine Fellowship.{{cite web | url=https://alpinefellowship.com/journal-spring-2021 |title=Journal > Spring |publisher=Alpine Fellowship |access-date=2 June 2024 |archive-date=22 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522084502/https://alpinefellowship.com/journal-spring-2021 |url-status=live}}

Burnside died after a short illness on 29 May 2024, at the age of 69.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/31/john-burnside-author-of-black-cat-bone-dies-aged-69 |title=John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone, dies aged 69 |last=Knight |first=Lucy |date=31 May 2024 | website=The Guardian |access-date=31 May 2024 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603011455/https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/31/john-burnside-author-of-black-cat-bone-dies-aged-69 |url-status=live}}{{cite tweet |author=Jonathan Cape |author-link=Jonathan Cape |user=JonathanCape |number=1796558759084605544 |date=31 May 2024 |title=We are devastated by the death of our beloved writer John Burnside, one of the most acclaimed of his generation. Hannah Westland, Publishing Director at Jonathan Cape, says: 'To read him was to feel a lighting up of the darkness.' |link=https://x.com/JonathanCape/status/1796558759084605544 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603011403/https://x.com/JonathanCape/status/1796558759084605544 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |access-date=6 June 2024}}

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• 1988: Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for The Hoop{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/vitality-of-language-earns-burnside-prestigious-prize-1659013 |title='Vitality of language' earns Burnside prestigious prize |work=The Scotsman |date=6 October 2011 |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• 1991: Scottish Arts Council Book Award, for Common Knowledge{{cite web |url=https://poetryarchive.org/poet/john-burnside/|title=Poet > John Burnside |publisher=Poetry Archive |website=poetryarchive.org |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• 1994: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, for Feast Days{{cite web|url=https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/gwendoline-riley-wins-the-annual-geoffrey-faber-memorial-prize-for-fiction/ |title=Gwendoline Riley wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2017 for fiction |date=12 December 2018 |publisher=Faber & Faber |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 1999: Encore Award for The Mercy Boys{{cite web |url=https://rsliterature.org/the-encore-award/ |title=The Encore Award |date=8 September 2023 |publisher=Royal Society of Literature |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 2000: Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection – shortlist), for The Asylum Dance
• 2000: T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist), for The Asylum Dance
• 2000: Whitbread Book Award, Poetry Award, for The Asylum Dance{{cite news | url=https://granta.com/interview-john-burnside/ |title=John Burnside – Interview |first=Rachel |last=Allen |work=Granta |date=16 August 2011 |access-date=3 June 2024}}
• 2002: Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award (shortlist), for The Light Trap
• 2002: T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist), for The Light Trap
• 2005: Forward Poetry Prize (Best Collection – shortlist), for The Good Neighbour
• 2006: Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for A Lie About My Father{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/gaelic-science-fiction-novel-wins-literary-prize-1553166|title=Gaelic science fiction novel wins literary prize |first=Brian |last=Ferguson |work=The Scotsman |date=15 November 2013 |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• 2008: Cholmondeley Award{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/19/news.guydammann |title=Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners |first=Guy |last=Dammann |work=The Guardian |date=19 June 2008 |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• 2011: Petrarca-Preis
• 2011: Forward Prize for Black Cat Bone{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15181254 |title=John Burnside wins Forward poetry prize |work=BBC News |date=5 October 2011 |access-date=3 June 2024}}
• 2011: T. S. Eliot Prize for Black Cat Bone{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2012/jan/16/ts-eliot-prize-john-burnside-podcast |title=Burnside, who has won the TS Eliot prize for 2011 for Black Cat Bone, talks to Claire Armitstead |work=The Guardian |access-date=25 March 2012 |location=London |date=16 January 2012 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603011507/https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2012/jan/16/ts-eliot-prize-john-burnside-podcast |url-status=live}}
• 2011: Corine Literature Prize for A Lie About My Father{{cite web |url=http://www.corine.de/chronik/detail.php?id=115&year=2011 |title=Belletristikpreis des ZEIT Verlages |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425165947/http://www.corine.de/chronik/detail.php?id=115&year=2011 |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 April 2019 |publisher=Corine Internationaler Buchpreis}}
• 2011: Costa Book AwardsNovel, shortlist, A Summer of Drowning{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2011/nov/15/costa-book-awards-2011-shortlists-in-pictures |title=Costa book awards 2011: the shortlists – in pictures |work=The Guardian |date=15 November 2011 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 2011: PEN/Ackerley Prize (shortlist) for Waking Up in Toytown{{cite web|title=Shortlist announced for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2011|url=http://www.englishpen.org/news/_1697/|publisher=English PEN|date=12 July 2011|access-date=25 July 2011|archive-date=8 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808072431/http://www.englishpen.org/news/_1697/|url-status=dead}}
• 2012: Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk with Judith Schalansky{{cite web |url=https://spycher-literaturpreis.ch/preistraeger/john-burnside-2012/|title=John Burnside 2012 |publisher=Spycher Literaturpreis Leuk |website=spycher-literaturpreis.ch |access-date=4 June 2024 |language=de}}
• 2013: Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for Something Like Happy
• 2017: Hörspiel des Jahres für Coldhaven, translation. composition and directing: Klaus Buhlert (SWR){{cite news|url=https://www.srf.ch/audio/hoerspiel/coldhaven-von-john-burnside?id=11298958 |title=«Coldhaven» von John Burnside |first=Katrin |last=Zipse |publisher=Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen |date=10 June 2018 |access-date=5 June 2024 |language=de}}
• 2018: Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden für Coldhaven. translation. composition and directing: Klaus Buhlert (SWR){{cite web|url=https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?dukey=4924818&SID|title=ARD-Hörspieldatenbank|website=hoerspiele.dra.de|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123094741/https://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?dukey=4924818&SID|url-status=live|language=de}}{{cite press release |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news/title-65227-en.php |title=Radio awards for Prof John Burnside and Olly Emanuel |publisher=University of St Andrews |date=25 June 2018 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 2022: Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets for Apostasy{{Cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/michael-marks-awards-2022-book-review-stephanie-sy-quia/ |title=Books of Revelation. Poetry pamphlets and this year's Michael Marks awards |first=Stephanie |last=Sy-Quia |work=The Times Literary Supplement |date=9 December 2022 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• 2023: David Cohen Prize

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• The Hoop (Carcanet, 1988){{cite web|url=https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/john-burnside/#bibliography |title=Poet > John Burnside > Selected Bibliography |publisher=Scottish Poetry Library |website=www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• Common Knowledge (Secker and Warburg, London, 1991)
• Feast Days (Secker and Warburg, London, 1992)
• The Myth of the Twin (Jonathan Cape, London, 1994)
• Swimming in the Flood (Jonathan Cape, London, 1995)
• Penguin Modern Poets (Penguin, 1996){{cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/john-burnside |title=Writers > John Burnside > Bibliography |publisher=British Council |website=www.britishcouncil.org/ |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• A Normal Skin (Jonathan Cape, London, 1997){{cite journal |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v19/n16/john-redmond/war-against-the-grown-ups |title=War against the Grown-Ups |first=John |last=Redmond |journal=London Review of Books|volume=19 |number=16 |date=21 August 1997}}
• The Asylum Dance (Jonathan Cape, London, 2000)
• The Light Trap (Jonathan Cape, London, 2002)
• A Poet's Polemic (2003){{cite web |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13927 |title=John Burnside, A Poet's Polemic |publisher=The Literary Encyclopedia |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• The Good Neighbour (Jonathan Cape, 2005)
• Selected Poems (Jonathan Cape, 2006)
• Gift Songs (Jonathan Cape, 2007){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview22 |title=A space that nobody owns |first=Charles |last=Bainbridge |work=The Guardian |date=28 April 2007 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• The Hunt in the Forest (Jonathan Cape, 2009)
• Black Cat Bone (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
• All One Breath (Jonathan Cape, 2014){{cite journal |author=Heptonstall, Geoffrey |date=Jun–Jul 2014 |title=Independent metaphysics |journal=The London Magazine |pages=132–136 |url= }}{{Cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |date=16 February 2014 |title=All One Breath by John Burnside – review |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/16/all-one-breath-john-burnside-review |access-date=12 November 2023 |issn=0029-7712 |archive-date=3 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603011458/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/16/all-one-breath-john-burnside-review |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2 March 2014 |title=Book review: All One Breath by John Burnside |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-all-one-breath-by-john-burnside-9163636.html |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=The Independent |first=Sean |last=O'Brien |language=en |archive-date=12 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231112103301/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-all-one-breath-by-john-burnside-9163636.html |url-status=live }}
• Still Life with Feeding Snake (Jonathan Cape, 2017)
• In the Name of the Bee/Im Namen der Biene (Golden Luft, Mainz 2018)
• Learning to Sleep (Jonathan Cape, 2021)
• Apostasy (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)
• Apostasy/Apostasie (Golden Luft, Mainz 2023){{cite web |url=https://golden-luft.de/apostasie/ |title=John Burnside. Apostasie/Apostasy. Gedichte/Poems (dt./engl.) |publisher=Golden Luft |language=de |access-date=5 June 2023}}

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• Ruin, Blossom (Vintage Publishing, Jonathan Cape, 2024)

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• The Dumb House (Jonathan Cape, London, 1997){{Cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/07/12/reviews/980712.12saynort.html |title=Cottage of Horrors |first=James |last=Saynor |work=The New York Times |date=12 July 1998 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• The Mercy Boys (Jonathan Cape, London, 1999)
• Burning Elvis (Jonathan Cape, London, 2000)
• The Locust Room (Jonathan Cape, London, 2001)
• Living Nowhere (Jonathan Cape, London, 2003){{cite journal |title=Hell's Antechamber. Living Nowhere By John Burnside |journal=Literary Review |first=Francis |last=King |author-link=Francis King |volume=301 |date=July 2003 |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/hell-antechamber}}
• The Devil's Footprints (Jonathan Cape, 2007)
• Glister (Jonathan Cape, 2008){{cite journal |title=Urban Degeneration. Glister By John Burnside |journal=Literary Review |first=Amanda |last=Craig |author-link=Amanda Craig|volume=355 |date=June 2008 |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/urban-degeneration}}
• A Summer of Drowning (Jonathan Cape, 2011){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/aug/26/john-burnside-life-in-writing |title=John Burnside: a life in writing |first=Sarah |last=Crown |work=The Guardian |date=26 August 2011 |access-date=4 June 2024}}
• Something Like Happy (Jonathan Cape, 2013)
• Ashland & Vine (Jonathan Cape, 2017){{cite journal |title=Small-Town Scheherazade. Ashland & Vine By John Burnside |journal=Literary Review |first=Thomas |last=Marks |volume=450 |date=February 2017 |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/urban-degeneration}}
• Havergey (Little Toller, 2017){{Cite news|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/15198533.book-review-meditations-on-a-fragmentary-scottish-utopia-in-john-burnsides-havergey/ |title=Book Review: Meditations on a fragmentary Scottish utopia in John Burnside's Havergey |first=Nick |last=Major |work=The National |location=Scotland |date=3 April 2017 |access-date=5 June 2024}}

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• Wild Reckoning (Gulbenkian, 2004), joint editor with Maurice Riordan of this anthology of ecology-related poems
• A Lie About My Father (biography, 2006)
• Wallace Stevens : poems / selected by John Burnside (Poet to Poet Series, Faber and Faber, 2008){{cite journal |title=Wallace Stevens: Poems Selected by John Burnside (review) |journal=The Wallace Stevens Journal |first=Edward |last=Ragg |author-link=Edward Ragg |volume=35 |issue=2 |date=Fall 2011 |pages=284–287 |doi=10.1353/wsj.2011.0030}}
• Waking up in Toytown (biography, Jonathan Cape, 2010)
• I Put a Spell on You (biography, Jonathan Cape, 2014){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/put-a-spell-on-you-john-burnside-review |title=I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside – review |first=Tessa |last=Hadley |author-link=Tessa Hadley |work=The Guardian |date=2 May 2014 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• {{cite book| url=https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11246.html| title=On Henry Miller|publisher= Princeton University Press| year=2018| isbn= 9780691166872}}{{cite journal |title=The Colossus of Big Sur. On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist By John Burnside |journal=Literary Review |first=Guy |last=Stevenson |volume=465 |date=June 2018 |pages=284–287 |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-colossus-of-big-sur}}
• The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century (literary criticism, 2019){{Cite news|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-music-of-time-john-burnside-book-review-marjorie-perloff/ |title=From confusion sprung |first=Marjorie |last=Perloff |author-link=Marjorie Perloff|work=The Times Literary Supplement |date=14 February 2020 |access-date=5 June 2024}}
• Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction (Little Toller Books, 2021){{cite web |url=https://wainwrightprize.com/nominee/aurochs-and-auks/ |title=Aurochs and Auks by John Burnside |publisher=Wainwright Prize |access-date=5 June 2024}}

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• Dice (with A. L. Kennedy), a series for television, produced by Cité-Amérique, Canada{{Cite web|url=https://www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk/other-work/ |title=Film, Drama and Comedy |publisher=A. L. Kennedy |website=www.a-l-kennedy.co.uk|access-date=4 June 2024}}

• John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2020).{{cite journal |title=John Burnside. Ed. by Ben Davies |journal=Forum for Modern Language Studies |first=Attila |last=Dósa |volume=58 |issue=1 |date=January 2022 |pages=128–129 |doi=10.1093/fmls/cqac011}}
• "Dwelling Places: An Appreciation of John Burnside", special edition of Agenda magazine, Vol. 45, No 4/Vol. 46, No 1, Spring/Summer 2011{{cite journal |date=Spring–Summer 2011 |title=Dwelling Places: An Appreciation of John Burnside |url=https://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/product/agenda-journal-vol-45-no4-vol-46-no1/ |journal=Agenda |volume=45–46 |issue=4–1 |location=London |access-date=5 June 2024}}

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{{Commons category|John Burnside}}

• {{LibraryThing author|id=burnsidejohn}}
• {{imdb name|1084753}}
• {{discogs artist|John Burnside}}
• [https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/john-burnside#awards Profile] at the British Council
• [https://poetryarchive.org/poet/john-burnside/ Profile] at the Poetry Archive
• [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-burnside Profile] at Poetry Foundation
• [https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/john-burnside/ Profile] at the Scottish Poetry Library, with recordings of him reading his poems and links to poem texts

• [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnburnside Profile] at The Guardian
• [https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/john-burnside Profile] at London Review of Books
• [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/johnburnside Profile] at New Statesman
• [https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/167785/john-burnside Profile] at Penguin UK

• [https://newhumanist.org.uk/2701/walk-the-tightrope "Walk the tightrope"] – a short essay in November 2011 issue of the New Humanist
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100820143652/http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue9/behindthecurtain.htm Archive of Article] in the Spring 2007 issue of Tate etc. magazine
• [http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/literature/features/archive/poemseptember2004.aspx Scottish Arts Council September 2004 Poem of the Month] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231212044/http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/literature/features/archive/poemseptember2004.aspx |date=31 December 2017 }}: "homage to Kåre Kivijärvi"

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