Books by Sam Burnside

Sam Burnside was born in County Antrim and now lives in the city of Derry where he was involved in adult education before establishing and becoming first Director of the Verbal Arts Centre (1992’€“2003), an

 educational charity established to promote literature in all its forms. He is the author of The Cathedral (1989) a long poem that won the Sunday Tribune Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry in that year. His work has

attracted a number of literary prizes, including an Allingham Poetry Prize; the University of Ulster’€™s McCrea Award for Literature and a Bass Ireland Award. His poetry has been published and broadcast widely.

Sam Burnside was made MBE in 2012 for services to the arts.