FRESH from his appearance last weekend at the Whistler Readers and Writers Festival Scottish writer John Burnside is completing his first visit to the West Coast participating in several events at this week's Vancouver Writers Fest.
Burnside, a regular contributor to The Guardian, has published five works of fiction, two volumes of memoirs and 11 collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whitbread Poetry Award. Burnside is one of only two poets (the other being Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (2011's Black Cat Bone).
Today, Friday, Oct. 19, Burnside appears in The Ghost of a Story event at Granville Island Stage at 1 p.m. with Tess Gallagher, Susan Musgrave and Seán Virgo, and later on tomorrow night he is part of the sold out An Intimate Evening with Scotland event at Studio 1398 at 8 p.m. with A. L. Kennedy.
