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Burnside wins T S Eliot Prize with 'a haunting book of great beauty'.
The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that John Burnside has won the 2011 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with Black Cat Bone, published by Jonathan Cape.

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Hear John Burnside reading from Black Cat Bone

Hear John Burnside reading from Black Cat Bone
Tuesday January 2012

Hear John Burnside reading five of his poems from Black Cat Bone and talking about his influences on the Guardian Books podcast.... more