Designer and Poet: nine poems appear in Oxford Poets 2004: An Anthology edited by David Constantine and Bernard O’Donoghue, published by Carcanet, 2004
Oxford
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The Falkirk wheel in Scotland is the world's first and only rotating boat lift: it links the Forth and Clyde Canal to the Union Canal.
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Staircase, built between 1616 and 1635, at The Queen's House, Greenwich by Inigo Jones.
The building, was commissioned by Queen Anne of Denmark in 1616. These are the first 'cantilevered' [centrally unsupported] stairs in England, copying a Venetian model.
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John Burnside, a poet who will be missed. “The Old Masters”—
About suffering, they knew no more or less
than we do
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My goodness, John Burnside was a writer. And a lovely man in person too, the one occasion I met him. This piece from a very old @LRB has stayed with me. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n08/… “Much of the time, the dead are with us…”
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'here, on the brink/ of elsewhere, gazing out across the land/ as if a better world was still to come.'
John Burnside, 1955-2024. Winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement, which I was honoured to judge. newwritingnorth.com/the-davi…
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So true: I’ve judged comps & sent to comps, judged prizes & sent, am rarely longlisted. Once in a blue moon I win. You just keep developing, trying, a poem sent dozens of times not longlisted will place. Judges have different tastes, poems are living things with ups & downs
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❛ I write because I’m trying to work something out. For myself. I don’t have any answers, but I am ready to speculate.
We're very sorry to hear about the passing of poet and writer John Burnside. Here's one of his wonderful poems, 'Late Show'.
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My favourite church memorial, in St Mary’s, Bury St Edmund’s. To a printer. “Like a worn-out type he is returned to the Founder, in the hopes of being recast in a better and more perfect Mould…”
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‘Some days, it’s enough to stand your ground.’
THE SOUL AS A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
John Burnside (RIP).
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This is such awful news.
We are devastated by the death of our beloved writer John Burnside, one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. Hannah Westland, Publishing Director at Jonathan Cape, says: ‘To read him was to feel a lighting up of the darkness.’ Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones, especially his children, grandchild and wife Sarah.
John Burnside © Helmut Fricke
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Hunger Artistry: Weston Library , Oxford 5pm 30 May 2024 with Peter Boxall, Ankhi Mukerjee, Alys Moody, Meindert Peters.
Part of #OxfordreadsKafka
Free but book now! mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events/20…
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Today I stumbled upon the wildlife #photography of Frances Crickmore. Her hares are utterly DIVINE!!!
You can find Frances' photography on Instagram - francescrickmorephoto - I don't think you need to be signed up to see them. Enjoy!
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