John Burnside (b. 1955) is the author of nine collections of poetry and five works of fiction.

约翰·伯恩赛德(1955 -)著有9本诗集和5部小说。

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For five years he assiduously practised writing poetry but when he was twenty-seven he turned definitely to fiction.

他用了五年的时间，勤奋地写作诗歌，但在二十七岁时，毅然转向小说。

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For five years he assiduous ly practised writing poetry but when he was twenty-seven he turned definitely to fiction.

他用了五年的时间，勤奋地写作诗歌，但在二十七岁时，毅然转向小说。

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He was thirty-six years old when he published his first book of poetry in eighteen fifty-five.

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He launched it in two thousand five with support from the Poetry Foundation.

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It was the only instrument and the only poetry that described the way I felt when I was five and when I was six and when my Dad told me about growing up in New Jersey and what it was like to see Bruce on the boardwalk and make out with girls on the beach.

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