Black Cat Bone (poetry collection)

Black Cat Bone is a poetry collection by John Burnside, published in 2011 by Jonathan Cape. It is the Scottish poet's 11th collection.

Black Cat Bone
AuthorJohn Burnside
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
PublisherJonathan Cape
Pages80
AwardsForward Prize for Best Poetry Collection; T. S. Eliot Prize
ISBN9780224093859
Preceded byThe Hunt in the Forest 
Followed byAll One Breath 

According to Fiona Sampson writing in The Independent:

"Black Cat Bone distils its dreamscapes into four sections. The opening long poem, "The Fair Chase", is followed by "Everafter", an exploration of romantic love and its repeated disappointment; "Black Cat Bone", haunted by images of a murdered girl; and "Faith", a series of poems broadly concerned with keeping faith with the human condition".

Black Cat Bone won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection in 2011, a £10,000 award; and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012, a £15,000 award. As of 2023, Burnside was one of only three poets to have won both prizes for the same book.

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