Podcast appearances and mentions of John Burnside

Ein Ortsbesuch im Imaginären: Einmal über die gesamte britische Insel führt die Erkundung der britischen Gegenwartslyrik. Von Michael Hillebrecht.

Ein Ortsbesuch im Imaginären: Einmal über die gesamte britische Insel führt die Erkundung der britischen Gegenwartslyrik. Von Michael Hillebrecht.

V3 Conservatory Poet Wendy Kieffer joins LAB the Podcast to share The Good Neighbor by John Burnside. Join us for a beautiful poem and wonderful conversation. Thank you for joining the conversation and embodying the life and beauty of the gospel. Don't forget to like, subscribe and follow LAB the Podcast. Learn more about V3Support / Sponsor: LINKSupport the show

Best Scottish Poems is the Scottish Poetry Library's annual online anthology of the 20 Best Scottish Poems, edited each year by a different editor. Bookshops and libraries – with honourable exceptions – often provide a very narrow range of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular. Best Scottish Poems offers readers in Scotland and abroad a way of sampling the range and achievement of our poets, their languages, forms, concerns. It is in no sense a competition but a personal choice, and this year's editors, the novelists Louise Welsh and Zoë Strachan, checked and balanced each other's predilections. Their introduction demonstrates how widely they read, and how intensely. All the Best Scottish Poems selections are available on the SPL website. This special podcast features readings by established voices and emerging talent. With readings by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Robin Robertson, John Burnside, and many more.  Photo by Jen Hadfield.

Possessing a friendship that spanned the Atlantic, Scotland's John Burnside (1955-2024) and America's Allison Funk were captured in conversation, speaking about what they enjoy about each other's countries, from poetry and music to the mutability of the landscape and people. Allison Funk is the author of four volumes of verse, including The Tumbling Box (2009). John Burnside's Black Cat Bone (2011), is one of only two titles to have won both the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. In a conversation that runs from delta blues to Virginia Woolf, Funk and Burnside explain the way in which they've influenced each other's work while still being ‘opposite sides of the same coin'.

In this extended version of Nothing But The Poem Kevin Williamson interviews Donny O'Rourke, editor of Dream State - The New Scottish Poets which was published in 1994 and remains the gold standard of poetry anthologies, and, arguably, the most visionary poetry anthology ever published in Scotland. Dream State's contributors were all aged under 40 at the time and were assembled by fellow poet and broadcaster Donny O'Rourke. Only 6 of these poets - John Burnside, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay, W N Herbert and Robert Crawford had appeared in The New Poetry - Bloodaxe's high profile generational anthology - the year before. Donny O'Rourke had his finely tuned ear to the ground, and, as well as the 6 poets listed above, he brought together another 19 Scottish poets under the age of 40, all overlooked by the Bloodaxe anthology. These included Don Paterson, David Kinloch, Meg Bateman, Richard Price, Graham Fulton, Robert Alan Jamieson, Maud Sulter, Alan Riach, and a 28 yer old - and as yet bookless poet - Roddy Lumsden. Donny O'Rourke was no ordinary editor. He was a visionary with an agenda who not only hoped to achieve a "gathering of forces' but wanted an anthology with zero fillers and, crucially, for the anthology to be a vital energetic snapshot of all aspects of Scottish life at a time the country had entered a tumultuous phase in its history. Dream State's ambition was huge: poetry as "news that stays news" as Ezra Pound once wrote. Popular culture, street smart wit, political tensions, scientific discoveries and radical re-imaginings infuse every page. O'Rourke was no narrow nationalist, as is stated in the introduction, but drew upon Edwin Morgan as the anthology's outward looking internationalist and hyper curious guiding spirit. Dream State was egalitarian in its sense of purpose from the outset. From Alasdair Gray came the inclusive definition of Scots as anyone who lived in Scotland, or who was from Scotland and left. Dream State was relatively balanced gender-wise too (for the 1990s). 15 male poets and 10 female poets. The New Poetry, despite its vitality and excellence, on the other hand had just 17 women poets out of its 55 contributors. We also hear the words of many working class poets in Dream State, perhaps abandoned by much of the politics of the time, making their voices heard. In this podcast Donny O'Rourke sits down in the Scottish Poetry Library with Kevin Williamson (who was publishing and editing Rebel Inc magazine at the same time) to revisit the creative riot that was the early 1990s. They discuss Dream State and the time and place which gave birth to it. Dream State The New Scottish Books was published by Polygon.

Das ideale Weihnachtsgeschenk für jemanden, der eigentlich in diesem Jahr schon zu viel gelesen hat? Oder mit der Gegenwart gerade nicht so viel zu tun haben möchte? Zehn Empfehlungen – und ein neues Literaturrätsel.

In this new episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Melissa Sandberg about her new podcast called Dog With A Bone that investigates the unsolved murder of John "Bernie" Burnside from Marysville, Ohio in December of 1993. This episode was previously published on Missing on November 4th, 2024. Check out Dog With a Bone: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-with-a-bone/id1764507916. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/593EpJDSmtLfVZxq9zLKVz. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwab_23/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Dog-with-a-Bone-61557342707890/. Sources: https://www.unioncountyohio.gov/media/Sheriff/Investigations%20Division/John%20E%20Burnside%20Unsolved%20Case.pdf. https://www.yahoo.com/news/podcaster-law-enforcement-taking-look-093000469.html. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/marysville/podcaster-law-enforcement-taking-new-look-at-decades-old-central-ohio-cold-case/. Main Theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at https://incompetech.com/. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at http://williamsflutes.com. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this new episode Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Melissa Sandberg about her new podcast called Dog With A Bone that investigates the unsolved murder of John "Bernie" Burnside from Marysville, Ohio in December of 1993. Check out the podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-with-a-bone/id1764507916. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/593EpJDSmtLfVZxq9zLKVz. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwab_23/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Dog-with-a-Bone-61557342707890/. Sources: https://www.unioncountyohio.gov/media/Sheriff/Investigations%20Division/John%20E%20Burnside%20Unsolved%20Case.pdf. https://www.yahoo.com/news/podcaster-law-enforcement-taking-look-093000469.html. https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/marysville/podcaster-law-enforcement-taking-new-look-at-decades-old-central-ohio-cold-case/. Main Theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at https://incompetech.com/. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at http://williamsflutes.com. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robbie Lawrence is a London based Scottish photographer and director represented by Webber Represents. Robbie is acutely attentive to the way images tell a story. Working with a painterly softness and sensitivity to his subjects, he deals in detail and nuance. From portraiture, travel and documentary to editorial work, he places the human experience front and centre to create thoughtful, abstract images, with an emphasis on narrative.Recent books include Blackwater River and A Voice Above The Linn published by Stanley/Barker. Stills gallery in Edinburgh hosted the first UK institutional solo exhibition by Robbie in 2022, bringing together a snapshot of life post-Brexit across Scotland's cities, rural locations and coastal towns.Robbie's new book, Long Walk Home, was just released (September 2024) by Stanley/Barker.Clients Include: UN, Apple, Nike, Hermes, Gucci, The New Yorker, Du Monde, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, I-D and many others. In episode 240, Robbie discusses, among other things:His recent assignment at The OlympicsHis internship in Paris and his time in New YorkHis relationship to painting and writingBuilding a career to encompass commercial and personal workHow working commercially can be a ‘relief'.His ‘macrojournalistic approach'His first book project, Blackwater RiverHis second book, A Voice Above The LinnCollaboration with poet John BurnsideHis new book about the Highland Games, Long Walk Home.Why he threw away three years worth of work and began againWorking digitally with ‘manual' lensesThe difference between myth and historyA reading from John Burnside's essay in the bookReferenced:The Tokyo Olympiad, Kon IchikawaThe French, William KleinJohn BurnsideRenton's rant on why it's ‘shite being Scottish' from the movie Trainspotting Website | Instagram“I like the variety […] I like being on set. You become more like a director. As a photographer you're almost the emotional heartbeat of a set. It's interesting because at school and university I really found exams hellish from an expectation point of view. Like, I would put myself under a lot of pressure. And I would describe some of those more pressurised commercial jobs almost like a school exam where you expected to produce something of quality under a very tight time constraint. As a physical experience it can feel similar, and I suppose maybe it's just experience that I can now recall moments where I've overcome those kind of stresses. So I like the shift.” VOTE HERE FOR ALETHEIA CASEY TO HAVE A SOLO SHOW AT PARIS PHOTO!!Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month.For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here.Subscribe to my weekly newsletter here for everything A Small Voice related and much more besides.Follow me on Instagram here.Build Yourself a Squarespace Website video course here.

Habt ihr eure Koffer für den Sommerurlaub schon gepackt? Wenn euch noch die richtige Lektüre für den Strand oder ein spannendes Hörbuch für die Autofahrt fehlt, dann haben Karla und Günter in dieser Folge genau die richtigen Tipps für euch! In „Sommerhaus am See“ von David James Poissant verbringen die Starlings einen letzten gemeinsamen Urlaub. Als ein kleiner Junge ertrinkt, wird das fragile Familiengefüge erschüttert.Liv lebt am Polarkreis. Als immer mehr junge Männer im Meer ertrinken, versucht sie das Rätsel zu lösen. Bei „In hellen Sommernächten“ von John Burnside verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fantasie.In dem Sachbuch „Mit Nachsicht“ ermuntert uns der Psychotherapeut Sina Haghiri, häufiger das Gute im Menschen zu sehen. Auf einer langen Autofahrt könnt ihr euch die Saga „Der Wind kennt meinen Namen“ anhören. Isabel Allende verwebt die Geschichten zweier Kinder, die durch politische Ereignisse von ihren Eltern getrennt werden. Die „Brown Girls“ in Daphne Palasi Andreades‘ Buch leben in New York. Sie sind aus Indien, Haiti oder China und wollen es besser haben als ihre Eltern. Ein rasantes Generationen-Portrait, mitreißend wie ein Poetry-Slam.In „Maame“ von Jessica George sucht Maddie zwischen zwei Kulturen nach ihrer Identität. Ein kraftvolles und inspirierendes Jugendbuch, leicht lesbar, aber alles andere als oberflächlich. Die Titel dieser Folge: David James Poissant: “Sommerhaus am See" (btb), John Burnside: “In hellen Sommernächten” (Penguin Verlag),Sina Haghiri: “Mit Nachsicht” (Kösel),Hörbuch: Isabel Allende: “Der Wind kennt meinen Namen” (Der Hörverlag),Daphne Palasi Andreades: “Brown Girls” (Luchterhand),Jessica George: “Maame” (btb)+++ Viel Spaß mit dieser Folge. Wir freuen uns auf euer Feedback an podcast@penguinrandomhouse.de.+++ Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

In Episode 15 Antonia and special guest Ben Norris wander into a wood and get lost in John Burnside's poem ‘Lost', They try to work out if there are different ways of being lost and how this might relate to the Gospel (Matthew 10:7-15) of being sent out without shoes, haversack or purse. Since it is the feast of St Benedict on 11th July, they wonder about his rule and the relation between the manual work of the garden and prayer and how this might create a ‘rule of peace'. Music: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: Nos. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev connected by Leopold Stokowski and performed by the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York. Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. About the Creators Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.  Kate (currently on leave from Florilegium) is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Matthew Bannister on Nora Cortiñas, a founding member of Argentina's “Mothers of the Disappeared” campaign group. Her son Gustavo was 24 when he was arrested by the country's right-wing dictatorship. He was never seen again. Belinda Bellville, the fashion designer who dressed every female member of the royal family apart from Queen Elizabeth. Her business partner David Sassoon shares his memories.The poet John Burnside whose acclaimed work reflected his troubled childhood in Cowdenbeath and Corby.Roger Corman, the American film director and producer known for his prolific output of low budget pictures.Producer: Ed PrendevilleArchive used: Exhibition of Belinda Bellville dresses at Holkham Hall, BBC Norfolk, 17/04/2013; Princess Goes To Washington (1965). Pathe News, 21/11/1965; Wild Music, Radio 4, 29/12/2019; Belief: John Burnside, BBC Radio 3; 04/04/2012; The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960) Official Trailer; Masque Of The Red Death (1964) Trailer; Attack of the Crab Monsters Official Trailer; Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957) Trailer; It Conquered the World (1956) Theatrical Trailer; Horror Café, BBC 2, 15/09/1990; The Film Programme, BBC Radio 4, 30/05/2008;

Humankind's relationship with music can be traced back millions of years and across continents. In Sound Tracks the archaeologist Graeme Lawson unearths some of the oldest instruments, from water-filled pots in Peru from AD700 that chirp like a bird, to bells from a tomb in 5th century China. He argues that music is part of what makes us human.An ancient horn, played from a watchtower on Hadrian's Wall, is a far cry from the modern version the award-winning trumpeter Alison Balsom plays. She is giving the UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis' Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra (Barbican on the 11th April; Bristol Beacon on the 12th). This is a contemporary piece that showcases the huge versatility of the trumpet, from the opening pre-historic-sounding wild elephant call to ceremonial fanfare and New Orleans jazz.The celebrated poet John Burnside's new collection, Ruin, Blossom explores what it is to be human as we contemplate our mortality. But even amidst the ruin and death and decay, his words reveal the beauty and hope in the everyday natural world: ‘first sun streaming through the trees … a skylark in the near field, flush with song'.(Extract from Wynton Marsalis' Trumpet Concerto, played by Alison Balsom with the Swedish Radio Orchestra in a concert from 17th February 2024, with permission from the Swedish Radio Orchestra )Producer: Katy Hickman

Ein britischer Folk-Musiker beobachtet sein eigenes Begräbnis. Er erzählt vom Kampf wider den Alkoholismus, der Suche nach der „echten“ Musik, dem Scheitern der Liebe und der Gnade der Freundschaft.

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This month, Claire and Marjorie dive into Open Book's latest theme, Lost and Found. Reading Lynn Gee's short story 'Tortoise' and John Burnside's poem 'On the Vanishing of my Sister, aged 3, 1965', they discuss the highs and lows of pet ownership, Edinburgh's secret gardens, changes that come with loss and discovery, and taking on the role of observer. -- Open Book Unbound Episode 57 – 4 September 2023 Hosts: Claire Urquhart and Marjorie Lotfi Producer: Colin Fraser Short Story: 'Tortoise' by Lynn Gee Poem: 'On the Vanishing of my Sister, aged 3, 1965' by John Burnside, 'All One Breath' (2014), Cape Poetry. Find out more about Open Book: www.openbookreading.com Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @openbookreading

Martin Feifel interpretiert John Burnsides Geschichten von zerbrechlicher Liebe und Glück in der schottischen Provinz sehr schlicht, mit großer Intimität, eindringlich. Eine Rezension von Christian Koseld. Von Christian Koseld.

Sexueller Abhängigkeit, archaische Besitzansprüche, pubertäre Verzweiflung - drei Männer erzählen von der Liebe zwischen einem 30-jährigen Schlachter und der 17-jährigen Tochter einer Bürger-Familie.

Den einfachen Menschen in den ländlichen Gegenden Schottlands ist das Glück nicht in die Wiege gelegt. Dennoch kennt jeder von ihnen "So etwas wie Glück". In dem gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichtenband verleiht John Burnside ihnen eine Stimme. Eine Rezension von Dorothea Breit. Von Dorothea Breit.

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Eva Menasse, Juli Zeh und Adam Soboczynski sind zu Gast im Literarischen Quartett. Mit Gastgeberin Thea Dorn reden sie über Bücher von John Burnside, Karen Duve und Ursula Fricker. Außerdem geht es um die Briefe von Ingeborg Bachmann und Max Frisch.Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Eva Menasse, Juli Zeh und Adam Soboczynski sind zu Gast im Literarischen Quartett. Mit Gastgeberin Thea Dorn reden sie über Bücher von John Burnside, Karen Duve und Ursula Fricker. Außerdem geht es um die Briefe von Ingeborg Bachmann und Max Frisch.Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

John Burnside: So etwas wie Glück. Geschichten über die Liebe | Übersetzt von Bernhard Robben | Penguin Verlag 2022 | Preis: 24,-- Euro

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The SPL is pleased to be able to share a treasure from our audio archives: from 2008, a talk by poet and novelist John Burnside on fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland before an audience, Burnside talks about poetry and visual art, the poet as nomad and ‘feeding the dead'.

"After working in computer systems analysis for a decade, John Burnside became a full-time writer in 1994. John has published 14 books of poetry, and has won the Geoffrey Faber Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Petrarca Preis and, most recently, the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes for his poetry. He has also published eight novels and a memoir. He is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews." We met to talk about the what, how and why of poetry as described in his book of criticism The Music of Time. Topics discussed include poetry making nothing happen, poetry making lots happen, paying attention, listening, lightening rods, the sound of the earth, everyday life, elitism, the questions that dog humans, the human name not meaning shit to a tree, connections, LSD and the continuum, dams, killing lawyers, understanding systems and not understanding them, Facebook, the "n" word, compost heaps, Leopardi, Montale, and more...

又到了每月的固定节目——月总结。这一期我们聊了聊10月读了什么值得聊一句的书，其中有一些非常适合在深秋阅读的书籍。 时间节点： 00:32 Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator) 04:32 The Birds, by Daphne Du Maurier 10:39 The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales, by Jen Campbell 提到：The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, by Jen Campbell （中文译本《世界诞生于午夜》，王晨颖 译） 17:37 The Dumb House, by John Burnside 提到：书/电影《香水》 22:59 The Last House on Needless Street, by Catriona Ward 25:44 「おばちゃんたちのいるところ」, 松田青子 英译本：Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translator) 提到：Fifty Sounds, by Polly Barton 31:38 Constellations, by Sinéad Gleeson 34:29 Notes on Grief, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 36:10 Inseparable, by Simone de Beauvoir（西蒙娜·德·波伏娃） 39:49 A Psalm for the Wild-Built, by Becky Chambers 44:36 She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan 提到的： 47:44 Jade Dragon Mountain (Li Du #1), by Elsa Hart 中译本 《玉龙雪山》，埃尔莎·哈特，王晓东（译） 50:01 漫画《王者天下》，原泰久茹茂華（译） 52:09 《秋园》，杨本芬 Whereabouts, by Jhumpa Lahiri In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein (Translator) 52:44 11、12月经典共读书目Orlando, by Virginia Woolf， 中译本《弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫》 欢迎大家告诉我们你们十月读了些什么书？有没有好看的恐怖小说、惊悚小说、哥特小说的推荐呢？ --------------------- 收听和订阅渠道： 墙内：小宇宙App，喜马拉雅，网易云“普通-读者” 墙外： Apple Podcast, Anchor，Spotify，Pocket Casts，Google Podcast，Breaker， Radiopublic 电邮：commonreader@protonmail.com 微博： 普通读者播客 三位主播的小红书： 徐慢懒：638510715 H：1895038519 堂本：1895329519 欢迎关注播客豆瓣： https://www.douban.com/people/commonreaders/ 片头音乐credit： Flipper's Guitar - 恋とマシンガン- Young, Alive, in Love - 片尾音乐credit：John Bartman - Happy African Village (Music from Pixabay)

Hypothesis By John Burnside

The Old Masters By John Burnside

John Burnside's new novel, Havergey (Little Toller), is set on a remote island in the aftermath of an ecological catastrophe. From our event in 2017, Burnside reads from the novel and is in conversation with Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso). The event is chaired by Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Fran Lock has a wonderful virtual sit-down with Alan Humm, founder and editor of One Hand Clapping,  a free online magazine that attempts to help new, under-represented and unpublished authors, as well as artists, musicians and composers, by featuring them in the same pages as those who are more established.  Alan is a writer and a teacher of English who has just completed his first collection, the intriguingly titled: A Brief and Biased History of Love.  He is also the editor and founder of One Hand Clapping Magazine, which began its online life last year, but which published a single glorious print version three years prior, and we're going to talk about that and about the transition from print to digital a little later on. So far, we have been lucky enough to feature work by Ali Smith, Les Murray, Hilary Mantel, Lydia Davis, Mark Doty, Colm Toibin, Paul Muldoon, John Burnside, Gillian Clarke, David Harsent, Martin Parr, and many others alongside our less-well-known contributors. They've managed to build a readership to be proud of.  https://www.1handclapping.online/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialyetdistanced/support

Meet Paolo Uccello’s spine-tingling painting The Hunt in Forest, with a mysterious vanishing point right at its very heart. It is an image which has fascinated poets, including Derek Mahon and John Burnside, who both wrote collections inspired by this 600 year old painting. John Burnside joins host Lucie Dawkins in this episode, to talk about why The Hunt in the Forest has gripped his imagination, and we also hear a reading of Derek Mahon’s poem. What do you see when you stare into the place where everything vanishes?Poems in this episode:‘The Hunt in the Forest’ by John Burnside from The Hunt in the Forest (2009)'The Hunt by Night’ by Derek Mahon from New Collected Poems (2011), reproduced by kind permission of the author’s Estate c/o The Gallery Press. www.gallerypress.comArtwork in this episode:The Hunt in the Forest View this onlineIf you want to take a closer look at the artwork mentioned in this episode, you can view it at the link above. Visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/objects-out-loudHosted by Lucie Dawkins, with John Burnside, featuring the voice of Damian Gildea. With poems by John Burnside and Derek Mahon.The producer is Lucie Dawkins.About Objects Out Loud: From a magician who inspired Shakespeare, and poems woven into Japanese prints, to manuscripts illuminated with the ancient love story of Layla and Majnun, this new podcast series will delve into the poetry and literature hidden in the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Eine kleine Meditation der Vergänglichkeit - so will John Burnside sein Buch über die Kunst des Sterbens, aber auch über geglückte Momente gelebten Lebens sehen. Ein Streifzug auf den Spuren der Erinnerung. Rezension von Angela Gutzeit. Aus dem Englischen von Bernhard Robben Haymon Verlag, 176 Seiten, 19,90 Euro ISBN 978-3-7099-8114-6

"What light there is" von John Burnside ist ein Essay mit einer Fülle von anregenden Gedanken: über Kunst, Kultur und Natur, das Sterben und den Tod. Von Rainer Moritz www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Buchkritik Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Eines Tages bemerkt er, dass es kein Zurück aus dem unaufhaltsamen Prozess des Alterns gibt. Der schottische Schriftsteller John Burnside sinniert in einem Essay über die Vergänglichkeit. Eine Rezension von Dorothea Breit.

The SPL is pleased to be able to share a treasure from our audio archives: from 2008, a talk by poet and novelist John Burnside on fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland before an audience, Burnside talks about poetry and visual art, the poet as nomad and 'feeding the dead'.

On this episode we continue our discussion of our commissioned pieces with 'Gazing' by Russell Jones and the poem 'Unwittingly' by John Burnside. Find out more at our website: openbookreading.com Music: Ragland.

Bernardine Evaristo on her Booker winning novel, John Burnside shares the power of poetry and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife.

Bernardine Evaristo on her Booker winning novel, John Burnside shares the power of poetry and Lauren Chater's Gulliver's Wife.

Late Show By John Burnside

Aus der Bestenliste-Jury diskutieren die Literaturkritiker*innen Cornelia Geißler, Kirsten Voigt und Jan Wiele mit Carsten Otte über Bücher von Monika Helfer, Bov Bjerg, Andrej Platonow und John Burnside.

Burnside nimmt keine Rücksichten, erst recht nicht sich selbst gegenüber. Selten liest man ein Buch von derartiger Kraft und Radikalität. Burnsides Bekenntnisse sind hochgradig interessante, oft verstörende Berichte aus dem Inneren des Künstlertums.

John Burnside - Über Liebe und Magie erschienen bei Penguin

John Burnside wendet sich in seinem neuen Buch "Über Liebe und Magie – I Put a Spell on You" jener Kraftquelle zu, aus der er wohl am meisten schöpft: der Liebe in all ihren Ausprägungen. Außerdem sprechen Marie Kaiser und Thomas Böhm über Terézia Moras "Auf dem Seil", "Love letters aus Absurdistan" von Maria Herrlich sowie Nick Drnasos "Sabrina".

Clarice Lispector: Tagtraum und Trunkenheit einer jungen FrauAus dem Portugiesischen von Luis RubyPenguin VerlagISBN 978-3-328-60094-7416 Seiten24 Euro(Rezension: Ulrich Rüdenauer)Ursula März: Tante MartlPiper VerlagEAN 978-3-492-05981-7192 Seiten20 Euro(Gespräch mit der Autorin)John Burnside: Über Liebe und MagieAus dem Englischen von Bernhard RobbenPenguin VerlagISBN 978-3-328-60089-3288 Seiten20 Euro(Rezension: Thomas Palzer)Theo Thijssen: Ein Junge wie KeesAus dem Niederländischen von Rolf ErdorfWallstein VerlagISBN 978-3-8353-3558-5432 Seiten24 Euro(Reportage auf den Spuren des Klassikers: Katharina Borchardt) Hanns-Josef Ortheil: Der von den Löwen träumteLuchterhand VerlagISBN 978-3-630-87439-5352 Seiten22 Euro(Rezension: Frank Hertweck)

Der schottische Schriftsteller John Burnside widmet sich dem goßen Thema Liebe in allen seinen Facetten: nicht romantisch verklärt, sondern realistisch, manchmal gnadenlos ehrlich. Ein großer autobiografischer Essay über das wohl mächtigste und erstaunlichste Gefühl, das ein Mensch haben kann.Rezension von Thomas Palzer.Aus dem Englischen von Bernhard RobbenPenguin VerlagISBN 978-3-328-60089-3288 Seiten20 Euro

Hubert Spiegel hat John Burnsides neues Buch in der F.A.Z. "das Journal der schmerzreichen Erziehung eines Herzens" genannt, "das sich jeder Erziehung widersetzt, das Umwege mehr liebt als Abkürzungen und aus Angst vor ausgetretenen Pfaden immer wieder auf abschüssiges Seelengelände gerät und dort den Halt verliert“. Auf der Buchmesse spricht Jan Wiele mit dem Autor – ein Interview in englischer Sprache.

The writer Fatima Bhutto celebrates the new global popular culture emerging from the East. She tells Andrew Marr that the West’s soft power dominance is on the wane as K-Pop, Dizi and Bollywood take the world by storm. The Korean artist Nam June Paik was among the first to foresee the importance of mass media and new technologies, coining the phrase ‘electronic superhighway’. Sook-Kyung Lee is co-curating a global tour of his work, starting at Tate Modern. A new play, Museum in Baghdad, brings together the stories of its British founder Gertrude Bell in 1926 with Ghalia Hussein’s attempts to reopen it in 2006 after looting during the war. The RSC director Erica Whyman says the play questions the role of culture in helping to create a nation. And the writer John Burnside turns to the poets of the 20th century to give voice to an alternative cultural history of the time. He draws on the work of poets, both renowned and unjustly obscure, to give shape and meaning to the world. Producer: Katy Hickman Picture credit: Tate

Award-winning author, poet and dancer Tishani Doshi reads from - and premieres - a performance of SMALL DAYS AND NIGHTS, her acclaimed new Bloomsbury novel, during Heckfield's month celebrating the Value of Silence. She is in conversation with Lucy Hyslop, the Assembly's curator, and music during the performance is created by Luca Nardon. Of Welsh-Gujarati descent, Doshi has published seven books of poetry and fiction - a signed copy of her new book will be available to buy. Her essays, poems and short stories have been widely anthologised and she has contributed to the Guardian, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and The Hindu. Doshi is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry, winner of the All-India Poetry Competition, and her first book, Countries of the Body, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006. Her debut novel, The Pleasure Seekers, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize. She lives in Tamil Nadu. Set against the vivid and evocative backdrop of modern India, Small Days and Nights is a story of family, of the ties that bind and the secrets we bury. Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a spit of the wild beach, haunted by the rattle of fishermen in their catamarans. And then there is the sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent her life in a residential facility. Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush, melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its solitary temples and step-wells shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But Grace’s attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia. Luminous, funny, surprising and heart-breaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning. Acclaim for Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods: ‘Intelligent, elegant, unflinching’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian, Best Summer Books, 2018 ‘Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral power to create a breath-taking panorama of danger, memory, beauty and the strange geographies of happiness. This is essential, immediate, urgent work and Doshi is that rare thing, an unashamed visionary’ John Burnside

Günter lässt sich auf einen verführerischen Sommer an der amerikanischen Küste ein. Karla stellt die großen Fragen an den modernen Feminismus. Für ihren Lesesommer haben die beiden ihre aktuellen Lieblingstitel von Roxane Gay, Chip Cheek (mit Interview), John Burnside und Juli Zeh im Gepäck.

In 2017 Jack Davis retired from being an office worker, which means that he can now devote as much time as he wants to being a visual artist, a witch and a radical faerie. His most recent visual art show, called FAGGOTS, was at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco in January 2019. In December of 2018 he created the dancers' costumes for Winter Circle X, a ritual/performance piece instigated by Keith Hennessy in collaboration with Snowflake Towers. Episode Highlights Jack tells how he first started studying art and education in college, and then got a masters degree in textiles. He started making crocheted penis shapes as his own way of glorifying sexuality during the sexual revolution of the 70's. He shares the history of the word faggot, and about his exploration and usage of “faggots” in his artwork as part of queer liberation. We discuss the public's response to his art, and how censorship and exclusion of his art has been part of that response. Jack uses performance art and ritual activism, such as in "Faggots around the Labyrinth," in San Francisco prior to the 2016 presidential election to protect queer youth. He gives us a brief history of the Radical Faeries, starting in 1979 with a gathering of gay men who were anti-assimilationist, who believe that gay men are different and have a special purpose. Now Radical Faerie community is co-created in cities and sanctuaries around the world, with gatherings that are open to all gender identities. Jack got involved in '82 and eventually became the treasurer of a local division. He was also part of the support team to care for two of the founding members (Harry Hay and John Burnside) at the end of their lives. He offers his ideas about how and why the Radical Faerie communities have been, and continue to be, so influential in queer culture. Jack shares how he uses pagan prayer beads, which have been a significant part of his spiritual daily practice.   Contact Jack Davis Contact Jack by email here. Visit the Queer Spirit episode page to view some of Jack's art.  

On this chapter of The Word Weaver Podcast, we chat with historical fiction writer Bryn Turnbull.After receiving her BA in English Literature and History from McGill University in Montreal and her Master's in Professional Communications in Ryerson University in Toronto, Bryn was accepted into the historic and prestigious prose program at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where she completed her Master's in Creative Writing.It was during her time at St. Andrews (dubbed "Hogwarts by the sea") where Bryn established her writing routine, found her writing tribe, and workshopped the beginnings of her first book. Bryn also shares insights from her professor, the renowned Scottish writer, John Burnside, who gave her the best piece of writing advice she's ever received.We talk about how the idea for People Like Us (the working title of her debut novel) was sparked by the Madonna-directed movie, W.E, how important a supportive network of family and friends are in overcoming self-doubt, and how the publishing process is like online dating.BRYN'S LINKS:Website: brynturnbull.comInstagram: @brynturnbullWORD WEAVER LINKS:Instagram: @wordweaverpodcastShownotes: louiseclairejohnson.com/podcast

We're here with our first book review! This time we are talking about The Dumb House by John Burnside and let's just say... Sh!t got dark. We discuss events from the book so spoilers ahead!

A conversation with Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside about Henry Miller, the flight from society, sexual braggadocio, folk ballads, Taoism, and his arresting book On Henry Miller: or How to Be an Anarchist (Princeton).   

UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPS One of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, poet, memoirist and novelist John Burnside today treats us to two new works. The hugely praised Ashland & Vine is the beautifully woven tale of an unlikely friendship between a grieving, semi-alcoholic widow and the elderly woman of whom she hopes to record the family history; Still Life with Feeding Snake is a poetry collection which hovers with great assurance on the brink of epiphany. Chaired by Stuart Kelly.

One of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, poet, memoirist and novelist John Burnside treats us to two new works. The hugely praised Ashland & Vine is the beautifully woven tale of an unlikely friendship between a grieving, semi-alcoholic widow and the elderly woman of whom she hopes to record the family history; Still Life with Feeding Snake is a poetry collection which hovers with great assurance on the brink of epiphany. Chaired by Stuart Kelly, this event was recorded live at the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

We were always going to mention love in our February podcast but worry not, there's no pink hearts or teddy bears here - only great books and authors and a look at the more interesting aspects of love. James Lasdun talks about his new novel The Fall Guy, a book set in the Catskills, filled with obsession and unease from the very first page. John Burnside's latest novel, Ashland & Vine is also set in America and here he tells us more about how the absence of history in American life spurred him to tell the story of some of its counter-cultural past - a period of resistance that has striking parallels with the world we live in today. And because we love you we even round things off with a poem from Burnside's new collection, Still Life with Feeding Snake. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sex With Strangers is Laura Eason's 2009 play about a brash blogger (whose blog shares the title of the play) meeting a shy novelist the Hampstead Theatre Toni Erdmann is a German comedy film which has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. is it wunderbar or nicht so gut? John Burnside has a new novel out: Ashland and Vine about friendship, history and memories Turner Prize-winning Keith Tyson's latest exhibition Turn Back Now at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings shows more than 350 of his studio wall drawings where the work itself is the process. Sheridan Smith stars in The Moorside, a BBC TV drama about the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stig Abel, Dea Birkett, and Linda Grant. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Half a Sixpence has been criticised for casting all-white actors. Julian Fellowes wrote the book and addresses this on tonight's Front Row. Then to discuss the issue of diverse casting in historical drama, Samira is joined by Talawa Theatre Company producer, Gail Babb, and writer and critic Ekow Eshun.It's nearly 40 years since the TV mini-series Roots shook America with its portrayal of slavery and the brutal civil war. Now a new series has been made. Writer and critic Ekow Eshun explores whether this version can have the same impact on audiences today.The picture that Beyoncé released announcing that she's pregnant with twins has become an internet sensation. As the numbers of views and likes continues to rise, art critic Laura Freeman discusses the long history of images that Beyoncé's photograph draws upon.John Burnside is a prolific award-winning poet and novelist. As his new novel, Ashland & Vine, and new collection of poems, Still Life with Feeding Snake, are published, he talks to Samira Ahmed about these stories, and his different approaches to telling them.

Helen Mort talks to Maurice Riordan about writing and the problem of observation; Jeremy Deller's Battle of Orgreave and her poem ‘Scab'; writing on the run; neuroscience, Norman MacCaig, John Burnside and Paul Muldoon, and how writing her first novel is both similar to and different from writing poems. Helen is a five times winner of Foyle Young Poets of the Year. Her first collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus) was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize and, in 2014, won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. She also reads her poem ‘Ablation'.

As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season the award-winning poet John Burnside explores his fascination with the Sámi landscapes of Finnmark in northern Norway, reflecting on how they're shaped by ice as much as rock.Winner of both the 2011 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Forward Prize, John Burnside has returned time and again to find out more about the resilient culture of the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia. Here, he considers the wild beauty of Sámiland (or Lapland), describing a region at such variance with the Santa-themed tourism flogged to visitors. Producer: Mark Smalley.

In episode five of the Man Booker Podcast series, we celebrate the recently announced 2015 shortlist. Host Joe Haddow catches up with two of the 2015 Man Booker Prize judges, Ellah Allfrey and John Burnside, to find out more about the six books that have made the cut. Then it's into central London for a visit to the bookies with writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards, to have flutter on the shortlisted books and chat to William Hill's bookmaker extraordinaire Graham Sharpe about making the odds. In this bumper shortlist episode, Joe also chats to Man Group's CEO Manny Roman, on supporting the prize and his literary influences before joining former winner much-loved author Dame Penelope Lively at home, as she talks about what it was like to win the prize 28 years ago, in 1987, with Moon Tiger. This is the latest in the Man Booker Prize Podcast series, an exciting look at the very best from the world of books. Join the conversation at @ManBookerPrize and #FinestFiction. **Gambling is very risky and careless gambling can result in the loss of substantial sums of money. For further information on responsible gambling, or if you think you may have a gambling problem, please click here (http://www.gamcare.org.uk/) or here (https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/) Underage gambling is an offence.

Self-portraits rarely fail to compel, but to what extent are they a true form of self-examination? James Hall maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contemporary artists. Rembrandt's self-portraits are the highlight of a major exhibition of the artist's work at The National Gallery. Its curator Betsy Wieseman discusses what these paintings can tell us about the artist. Poetry and memoir are the tools of John Burnside's self-exploration. A previous TS Eliot prize winner, he discusses his latest collection 'All One Breath' for which he has been nominated again this year. The musician Richard Tognetti argues that 'the self' can still shine through in interpretations of great classical works. Producer: Fiona Woods.

WWoO Show 14: Contract Adjustments, Collars and Back Spreads Joe Harwood from OIC's Investor Services team joins Joe Burgoyne for a discussion on contract adjustments. Then on Profiles and Perspectives, Joe interviews John Burnside of Freeboard Capital about the use of option strategies including collars and back spreads.

Joe Harwood from OIC's Investor Services team joins Joe Burgoyne for a discussion on contract adjustments. Then on Profiles and Perspectives, Joe interviews John Burnside of Freeboard Capital about the use of option strategies including collars and back spreads.

This special event involves multiple voices approaching notions of abstraction from a variety of poetic, philosophical and theoretical standpoints by Audain Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Jürgen Partenheimer. Born in Munich in 1947, Partenheimer studied the theory and practice of art in Germany, the USA, Mexico and France. As a representative of a subjective abstraction, he is considered one of the most important contemporary artists of Germany. With theory, poetry and prose as his referential grammar for artistic expression, Partenheimer's work encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and text. Marked by a post-minimalist background and a poetic intensity, his art has been referred to as metaphysical realism. He became internationally renowned following his participation in the Paris, Venice and São Paulo Biennials, and in 2000 became the first contemporary German artist to have a retrospective in China at the National Museum of Art in Beijing. His work has been part of major exhibitions including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, the Miró Foundation in Barcelona and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Featuring guest appearances by Nigel Prince, Nicholas Lea, Mayko Nguyen and Aoife MacNamara. Partenheimer’s work has received many national and international prizes and awards, among others the Art Critics’ Prize of Madrid, Spain; the NEA Grant, National Endowment of the Arts, New York; Canada Council Grant, Montréal and the Federal Cross of Merit of Germany for outstanding international achievement. Partenheimer has taught as Professor, Distinguished Visiting Professor and Visiting artist among others at San Francisco Art Institute; Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, University of California at Davis; Rijks Academy in Amsterdam; Royal College of Art, Edinburgh; Rhode Island School of Design and WITS School of Arts in Johannesburg. Partenheimer's residency at Emily Carr takes place from February - May, 2014 in preparation for an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery in the fall of 2014. The exhibition in Vancouver forms part of an open cooperation with the Pinakothek der Moderne München (The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Munich); Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, exploring site and space-related installation concepts. Parallel to the different exhibitions, all of which will be held in 2014, the participating institutions closely worked on a publication with the artist that aims at commenting on and integrating the various aspects of his work as an additional ‘fifth room’. International authors from a variety of different disciplines, including Anne Carson, Lebogang Mashile, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann, Antje v. Graevenitz, John Burnside, Oswald Egger and Rudi Fuchs, have taken up the invitation to write contributions and become involved in this project. Published by Distanz Publishers, Berlin, 2014. Established in 2012, the Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence Program has a mandate to bring nationally and internationally renowned contemporary artists to Vancouver, create curriculum specific to each individual visiting artist, and support the creation of new works. Adopting a flexible model that encourages experimentation, collaboration, dialogue and engagement, the program will benefit artists, the academic community, the Vancouver art community at large, and will greatly contribute to Vancouver’s stature within the international art world. The Program, housed within the Audain School of Visual Arts encompassing the Faculty of Visual Arts + Material Practice, provides support for two artists per year to live and work in Vancouver for a one to three month period, and includes living and travel expenses, support for production costs, exhibitions and honoraria. Please note that Aoife MacNamara's reading has been removed due to technical difficulti

Best Scottish Poems is the Scottish Poetry Library's annual online anthology of the 20 Best Scottish Poems, edited each year by a different editor. Bookshops and libraries – with honourable exceptions – often provide a very narrow range of poetry, and Scottish poetry in particular. Best Scottish Poems offers readers in Scotland and abroad a way of sampling the range and achievement of our poets, their languages, forms, concerns. It is in no sense a competition but a personal choice, and this year's editors, the novelists Louise Welsh and Zoë Strachan, checked and balanced each other’s predilections. Their introduction demonstrates how widely they read, and how intensely. The preceding years’ selections are still available on this site. This special podcast features readings by established voices and emerging talent. With readings by Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Robin Robertson, John Burnside, and many more. Image: Seaweed by Lucy Burnett

In this podcast our Programme Manager, Jennifer Williams, talks to Robert Wrigley about his new collection and first book to be published in the UK, The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013). They also touch on narrative in poetry, the infinite capacity of poetry to talk about love and wild horses on the southern plains of Idaho. Robert was at the SPL in November 2013 for a reading with John Burnside. From Bloodaxe (http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Robert+Wrigley) - His first book to be published in the UK, The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), draws on several collections published in the US, including Beautiful Country (2010);Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (2006); Lives of the Animals (2003), winner of the Poets Prize; Reign of Snakes (1999), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award; and In the Bank of Beautiful Sins(1995), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. Wrigley has also won the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, Poetry magazine’s Frederick Bock Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Celia B. Wagner Award, Poetry Northwest’s Theodore Roethke Award, and six Pushcart Prizes. Read more about Robert: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-wrigley Music by James Iremonger: www.jamesiremonger.co.uk

It's the end of the year. Time to put your feet up and reflect on what has been - and what is to come. The last SPL podcast of the year talks to the members of staff who keep the SPL going and asks them what their poetic highlights of the year are. We also broadcast clips from events held at the SPL over the year, including our explosive What I Love - What I Hate About Poetry debate! The show features Aonghas MacNeacail, John Burnside, Ryan Van Winkle, Allison Funk and Gerry Cambridge. Image: christmas bells tockholes 2009 by jack berry, under a Creative Commons licence

John Burnside talks to Sam Guglani and Jo Shapcott about metaphor and imagination and its force in the world. We hear John reads his poem "First Signs of Ageing" via Soundcloud.

John Burnside reading 'First SIgns of Ageing' for Medicine Unboxed 2012.

John Burnside reading 'Hall of Mirrors 1964' for Medicine Unboxed 2012.

John Burnside reading 'First Footnote on Zoomorphism' for Medicine Unboxed 2012.

Possessing a friendship that spans the Atlantic, Scotland's John Burnside and America's Allison Funk are captured in conversation, speaking about what they enjoy about each other's country, from poetry and music to the mutability of the landscape and people. Allison Funk is the author of four volumes of verse, the most recent of which is The Tumbling Box (2009). John Burnside's latest, Black Cat Bone (2011), is one of only two titles to have won both the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. In a conversation that runs from delta blues to Virginia Woolf, Funk and Allison explain the way in which they've influenced each other's work while still being 'opposite sides of the same coin'.

The finest contemporary Scottish writing commissioned especially by the festival. We asked four of our most highly acclaimed writers (John Burnside, Janice Galloway, A L Kennedy and Don Paterson) to create new work - poetry and prose - for this 2008 event. And what a fantastic showcase it was.

The finest contemporary Scottish writing commissioned especially by the festival. We asked four of our most highly acclaimed writers (John Burnside, Janice Galloway, A L Kennedy and Don Paterson) to create new work - poetry and prose - for this 2008 event. And what a fantastic showcase it was.

In our Thursday night podcast we have a distinct Mediterranean flavour with Valerio Magrelli accompanied by Anna Crowe, Luiz Muñoz with his translator John Burnside, Scottish poet Hamish Whyte, translator and poet Anna Crowe and Cumbrian Jacob Polley.