'A Will to Remember' Poems By Sam Burnside Linen Hall Library 2002 From, Introduction ‘Science and art have in common the practice of investigation…The personal is extruded from the formal statements of science … whereas in much art it is significantly present. Tentatively, Burnside moves his investigation away from the Holocaust itself and into the territory of

'Horses' Poems By Sam Burnside Published as a handmade book in a limited edition in Co Donegal by Ballagh Studio. _____________________________________________ He is poise, trapped in the forelock of a wave; He is balance, entombed between tremblings. He is wisdom, buried in the black eye Of a winter’s bog-hole; he is silence. He is what fleetness is:

'The Cathedral' Poems By Sam Burnside The Cathedral First published in 1989 An additional stanza, added to The Cathedral, at the suggestion of RJ Hunter, September, 2007. To be published by St Columb’s Cathedral, 2008 ______________________________________ Weighty Stones: Mighty Men Were they truly great and mighty men head and shoulders above the rest (above the dunderheads and

New and Selected Poems Poems By Sam Burnside Description This selection contains work drawn from six previous publications together with more recent poems, including a Bestiary or suite of animal poems.The former draws heavily on the landscape of the north of Ireland, while the later is influenced by the form, content and tone of

'Stretcher Bearer' Stretcher Bearer  (an extract) appeared on BBC Radio Foyle, October 2014. Stretcher Bearer appeared in a The Narrow Fellow, Journal of Poetry, spring, USA. 2015 ‘Stretcher Bearer’s Story’is collected in Forms of Freedom. Poems, by Sam Burnside, Lapwing Poetry, Belfast, 2015. (Stretcher Bearer was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, USA, 2016) ________________________________ Moths have

'Mrs Nettlebed's Year' With Cover Illustration by Tim Stampton ISBN 978-1-908448-91-0 A new book for children Publication date 1st December 2014 In this richly vibrant collection of stories for children (and not a few parents!) you will meet among others Mr Dodder the Postman, Mr Tappit the Boot Maker, Mrs Goat and Brother Snail,

'Individuals Communities and the Notion of Progress' A discussion of some of the ideas that exercised the author during three decades of teaching literature and then during the establishment of the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry-Londonderry Contains a detailed account of the intellectual underpinnings of the development of some ideas them the establishment and  restoration of

'Rebecca's Journey', Extract from a Novel (in progress) By Sam Burnside Introduction Set against the backdrop of the troubles, the novel follows one woman’s journey between the richly diverse outer physical and cultural worlds of Northern Ireland and her inner world where psychological loss of balance intervenes in her pursuit of an  understanding of her own history.