‘The English language is a colonial weapon; it’s been employed for some of the most gruesome atrocities. How you make something beautiful with that is a troubling question.’
Shortlisted poets Tom Branfoot and Tim Tim Cheng discuss each other’s work.
Essay | ‘Everything Shapes What It Encounters’: On the Life and Work of John Burnside by Tom Branfoot
‘As he writes in The Music of Time, ‘to make a poem at all is an act of hope’, for a future in which somebody is present, attending to the music and the craft.’
Tom Branfoot remembers the late John Burnside.