Background
John Burnside was born on March 19, 1955, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
(A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting...)
A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside's darkest and most powerful collection yet.
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1997
John Burnside was born on March 19, 1955, in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.
Burnside studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology.
A former computer software engineer, John has been a freelance writer since 1996. He is a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and is now Professor in Creative Writing at St Andrews University, where he teaches creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry.
(The poems in this collection by John Burnside focus on me...)
1992(A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting...)
1997