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John Burnside’s Black Cat Bone, winner of both the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, was published in the United States by Graywolf. He teaches American poetry and creative writing at the University of St Andrews.
Poetry
you lived by what the census left
unmentioned, all the figments of a world
that nothing can account for, but the soul:
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