tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post3281556350938214920..comments2024-03-01T06:20:29.087+00:00Comments on qualia and other wildlife: The T S Eliot prize, John Burnside & black cat bonerosellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-1520918562998439232012-02-24T08:18:35.043+00:002012-02-24T08:18:35.043+00:00Daniela, thank you - have replied to your other ki...Daniela, thank you - have replied to your other kind comment. I think there's a sea-change - people are hungry for words like Burnside's at last... Yes shapeshifting indeed. He is I think a seer.rosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-50444069147696655292012-02-23T23:23:54.140+00:002012-02-23T23:23:54.140+00:00Hi Roselle, finally making time to start reading y...Hi Roselle, finally making time to start reading your excellent blog! And another latecomer to John Burnside, yes my kind of poetry!First heard about him through this http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/20/author-author-john-burnside only last month and was so impressed by someone writing so clearly about shapeshifting in everyday life - an idea that's very close to me, but very out there for most people.Danielahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859756468035725396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-85776121211968957712012-02-09T21:55:59.482+00:002012-02-09T21:55:59.482+00:00Ah yes Andie of course you would like JB - and yes...Ah yes Andie of course you would like JB - and yes I'm astonished you didn't already know him! Right up your side of the lane! And to my mind he's perhaps the finest contemporary poet in mainland Britain. I have all his collections (tho not been tempted so far by his prose; but interested to hear you like his memoir - ok, will check it out). I also attended an Arvon course of his - modest and generous man.<br /><br />Good to hear from you. Not done anything about a workshop in Sussex - been a bit full-on here since my mum's death. Haven't forgotten tho. Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-81014544231672318052012-02-09T10:24:35.037+00:002012-02-09T10:24:35.037+00:00A bit late to this post, but appreciated reading i...A bit late to this post, but appreciated reading it. A bit late, also, to John Burnside who I really only recently (I can hardly believe this) really discovered. Blown away, as you might imagine, by Hunt in the Forest and Black Cat Bone. Also reading his lovely memoir. Will probably be getting everything he has ever written - will be, in other words, A Fan.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.com