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‘Refuge Resulte’
'Refuge Resulte' This new poem (Refuge Resulte) was commissioned by St Canice's Church, Eglinton to mark the 200th
‘The Place that Lies Between’
'The Place that Lies Between' Poems commissioned and Published by Culmore Historical Society Poems Include: The Long View
‘My Name is Rebecca’
'My Name is Rebecca' 'I cannot forget. That memory is always present: it is like a red-hot coal,
‘The Radical and the Celebratory’
'The Radical and the Celebratory' ‘Defining the Inheritance’, Sam Burnside interviewed by Damien Smyth, Linenhall Review, Volume 6, Number 3, Winter 1989,
‘Brackfield Bawn’
'Brackfield Bawn' On Being in Brackfield Memorial Woods by Sam Burnside Published by Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, ISBN 978-1-910855-63-8
‘Forms of Freedom’
'Forms of Freedom' by Sam Burnside ISBN 978-1-910855-00-0 Lapwing Publications Publication date 14th November 2015 Considerations of freedom,
‘The Recorder’
'The Recorder' From THE RECORDER, The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Volume 12,
Cultural Development
Cultural Development The Verbal Arts Centre was established by Sam Burnside in 1992: he acted as its first
Poetry in Public Installations
Poetry in Public Installations Throughout his career Burnside has sought to make literature freely available to all individuals,
‘Mice’
'Mice' By Sam Burnside 'Mice' or 'Will the real rats stand up'.
‘The Poetry and Processing of Anger’
'The Poetry and Processing of Anger' By Sam Burnside unpublished Isn’t there something pathetically pitiful when any man
‘Nightingales and Crows’
'Nightingales and Crows' By Sam Burnside 1 January, 2007 (from a suggestion made by Bronagh) A comfortable gathering
‘Between One Day and Another’
'Between One Day and Another' From A Crazy Knot 1996 We are just on that verge Between Autumn
‘Weather-Wise’
'Weather-Wise' By Sam Burnside A city is a place of wall within wall within wall: There is no
‘Silence’
'Silence' By Sam Burnside When my dry dust, Scattered at evening time, Blindly, in fisted hand And arm
‘Fissure’
'Fissure' By Sam Burnside 20/01/2011 Then, when it is all over here when I am parked on the
‘An Autumn Day’
'An Autumn Day' This was recently read as for the BBC radio Foyle World Day 2014. Read by
Public Libraries as Mentors of Private and Public Imagination
'Public Libraries as Mentors of Private and Public Imagination' By Sam Burnside Public libraries as mentors of private and
Literary Materials Relating to the Siege and Relief of Derry
'Literary Materials Relating to the Siege and Relief of Derry' The Linen Hall Review, Vol 5, no. 3,
Hymns in a Man’s Life: Springs of Sense and Sensibility
'Hymns in a Man's Life: Springs of Sense and Sensibility ' “I want to throw myself on the
‘Christmas at the Sunrise Bar’
'Christmas at the Sunrise Bar' This is part of a collection of short stories that won the McCrae
‘Marriage Morning’
'Marriage Morning' Sam Burnside reads Marriage Morning: a poem for Sarah Poem read by author. To celebrate wedding,
‘Like a Reed in the Wind’
'Like a Reed in the Wind' SAM BURNSIDE AND LESLIE NICHOL, LIKE A REED IN THE WIND POETRY
‘Marie’s Homecoming’
'Marie's Homecoming' Dr Marie Madden died City Hospital, Belfast 31 May 2009. Brought home to Claudy, Co
Columba Canticles
'Columba Canticles' Excerpt from the Columba Canticles, performed at St Columb’s Cathedral in Derry~Londonderry on Sunday 9 June