Violence Quote by John Burnside

““Everything stayed hidden […] it was all secret – known by anyone who cared to know, but unacknowledged, like a priest’s feverish brightness around adolescent boys, or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays when Dumfermline lost at home(p. 83-84)””

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The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem,…

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Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's…

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My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable…

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“There are days when that dark face is something I can think of as a friend – a primal energy that carries me forward…

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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south…

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The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion,…

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My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

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I remember a nightfall from childhood, far from home and off the known track: I'd been walking with some older boys, but they ran…

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One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a…

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'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

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