John Burnside, winner of the T.S. Eliot prize

The newspaper and BBC accounts of the T.S. Eliot Prize are all depressingly, and predictably, about the furore caused by two of the shortlisted poets withdrawing. The Channel 4 coverage of the announcement of the award spent the majority of the time on this, and spoke to John Burnside about his poetry for about a second. So here is a refreshing interview:

http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Interview-John-Burnside