While John Burnside listed The Hoop (1988) as his first book, before that collection of poems there had been Homing (1983), co-published by Richard Burns at Los Poetry Press and me at Menard Press. For this beautiful early sequence of poems, Burnside used the name John-Paul Dick.
At some point I asked John whether – for promotional reasons – we could reveal that the author was John Burnside. He immediately agreed.
