'The Place that Lies Between' Poems commissioned and Published by Culmore Historical Society Poems Include: The Long View   The Importance of Angles Seasons   Blood Lines Hail, The Man Who Invented Crossroads   Survivalist  Fisherman A Culmore Year Elagh

'My Name is Rebecca' 'I cannot forget. That memory is always present: it is like a red-hot coal, resting among the blackened cinders of the past. It is a day in September. The year is 1983. I am walking along a Belfast street with my sister, Ruth.' Ruth Porter was killed in a bomb blast in

'The Radical and the Celebratory' ‘Defining the Inheritance’, Sam Burnside interviewed by Damien Smyth, Linenhall Review, Volume 6, Number 3, Winter 1989, pp. 5-9 Radical: Forming the root, basis or foundation; going to the root, origin. Radical: Of qualities – inherent in the nature or essence of a thing or person. Radical: Of politics – one who holds the

'Brackfield Bawn' On Being in Brackfield Memorial Woods by Sam Burnside Published by Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, ISBN 978-1-910855-63-8 A forthcoming collection of poems The poems contained in this collection were written during a year-long period when the author was invited by the Woodland Trust and its Brackfield Advisory Committee to explore the place and spirit in

'Forms of Freedom' by Sam Burnside ISBN 978-1-910855-00-0 Lapwing Publications Publication date 14th November 2015 Considerations of freedom, its meanings and its contradictions, have for long lain at the heart of human discourse. In these poems Sam Burnside explores some of the notions that arise from the tensions he discovers on battlefields and in farm-fields, in

'The Recorder' From THE RECORDER, The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Volume 12, No. 2, Fall 1999. pp 36-53 Diary My Book of Days I am conscious of not having done enough, beyond keeping going, of not saying what I should

'Christmas at the Sunrise Bar' This is part of a collection of short stories that won the McCrae Literary Award. Other stories have been broadcast and have appeared in New Irish Writing and The Blackstaff Book of Short Stories. 1980 She was black-haired, big-jawed, big-bottomed and plain as a pint of porter. Every day

'Walking the Marches' Salmon Publishing 1990 In and Out of Derry The Donegal mountains, sit out there blue, blunt heaps of lignite, sad hinterland to a burning city; and he heavy stone walls and houses, shops and factories, fronts erased, sag into the bog-ground while light title-deeds change hands in the mute communion of commerce. The city’s

'Mrs Nettlebed and the Woodlanders' ISBN 978-1-909556-38-6 The second in the Mrs Nettlebed Series Publication date 14th November 2015 Following the success of the first Mrs Nettlebed book, this collection of new stories opens up the world of nature to younger children. _____________________________________ Brother Bear and the Empty Cave In which Bear finds a new home and has

Editing for 'Borderlines' Borderlines, ed Sam Burnside, with a preface by Frank McGuinness, Holiday Projects West, 1988 (A collection of new writing from the North West)

'A Story of Mice' By Sam Burnside

'Innocents' Poems By Sam Burnside The Tank Gallery Belfast 2004 Foreword A few years ago when I was researching my play Dolly West’s Kitchen I was suddenly struck by one fact that shocked the living daylights out of me. This was that I was born eight years after World War Two ended. As a boy, that terrible