That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you abou…

- John Burnside

Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of bein…

- John Burnside

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a …

- John Burnside

Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need be n…

- John Burnside

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and …

- John Burnside

My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, br…

- John Burnside