Major
European Poet Richard Burns is ESAW's tenth release in the mini series. Manual
- the first 20 is the start of a new series of poems by Burns. The book
offers an exciting new development in Burns' oeuvre, a coup for a local
publisher to have Burns in the mini series.
Richard
Burnswas born in
London
in 1943, into a family of musicians.He
has lived in
Italy,
Greece, the
USA
and former Yugoslavia. His perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish,
Slavic, American and Oriental influences. In the 1970s, he founded and ran the
international Cambridge Poetry Festival. In 2005, he was awarded the international Morava Poetry Prize. He has also received the Eric Gregory Award,
the Keats Memorial Poetry Prize and the Yeats Club Prize. His poems have been
translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in Cambridge,
England
.