Poet, memoirist, and novelist John Burnside (1955–2024) was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His poetry received numerous awards: The Hoop and Common Knowledge won Scottish Arts Council Book Awards; Feast Days received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; The Asylum Dance won the Whitbread Poetry Award and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Prize; Black Cat Bone earned both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes; and his final collection, Ruin, Blossom, was posthumously awarded the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. A Professor of Creative Writing at the University of St. Andrews, Burnside was recognized in 2023 with the David Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement in literature.
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