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Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local Catholic college before reading English at St John’s College, Cambridge. After graduating from Yale Law School he practised law in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain before moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and lives and writes in London and Cambridge. His poetry publications include the pamphlets Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011), and Cold Eye, a collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (2010), all published by Carcanet Press in the Lintott Press imprint. His poetry was included in Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology and has been published in periodicals including the TLS, Poetry Review, The New Statesman, Financial Times and PN Review.

Visit www.danburtpoetry.com for further information about Dan Burt’s poetry.

Praise for Dan Burt 'the verse flexes muscle after muscle. Burt is excellent on place and occasion... The writing... can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. Certain Windows is a very good book...' George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society 'Dan Burt investigates the gaps between people, their cultures, their places of living. Between new and old worlds, between lives of deprivation and comfort, between inner and outer selves, there is something gritty and disturbing working away. From cynicism and anger to deeply felt and even traumatic elegy, these are the revelations and considerations of a life and the lives that contribute to and make one's own. In poems and prose that reach deep down into the reservoir of human loss, distress and need, comes hope. He is a writer of intensity and passion who is able to be wry when needs be. There are the costs, but there is also renewal.' John Kinsella

We Look Like This , Dan Burt's first full collection (which includes poems from, and greatly expands on, the pamphlets he has published in the past five years with Michael Schmidt's Lintott Press), meets his childhood and family history head-on. read more

Elaine Feinstein, The Times , 26 May 2012. read more

Poet searches for true measure of success. read more

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Elaine Feinstein, The Times , 26 May 2012. read more

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Dan Burt Books by this author: We Look Like This Certain Windows Cold Eye Searched For Text About Reviews Gallery Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local Catholic college before reading English at St John’s College, Cambridge. After graduating from Yale Law School he practised law in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain before moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College and lives and writes in London and Cambridge. His poetry publications include the pamphlets Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011), and Cold Eye, a collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (2010), all published by Carcanet Press in the Lintott Press imprint. His poetry was included in Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology and has been published in periodicals including the TLS, Poetry Review, The New Statesman, Financial Times and PN Review. Visit www.danburtpoetry.com for further information about Dan Burt’s poetry. Praise for Dan Burt 'the verse flexes muscle after muscle. Burt is excellent on place and occasion... The writing... can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. Certain Windows is a very good book...' George Szirtes, Poetry Book Society 'Dan Burt investigates the gaps between people, their cultures, their places of living. Between new and old worlds, between lives of deprivation and comfort, between inner and outer selves, there is something gritty and disturbing working away. From cynicism and anger to deeply felt and even traumatic elegy, these are the revelations and considerations of a life and the lives that contribute to and make one's own. In poems and prose that reach deep down into the reservoir of human loss, distress and need, comes hope. He is a writer of intensity and passion who is able to be wry when needs be. There are the costs, but there is also renewal.' John Kinsella We Look Like This , Dan Burt's first full collection (which includes poems from, and greatly expands on, the pamphlets he has published in the past five years with Michael Schmidt's Lintott Press), meets his childhood and family history head-on. read more Elaine Feinstein, The Times , 26 May 2012. read more Poet searches for true measure of success. read more [...] read more We Look Like This , Dan Burt's first full collection (which includes poems from, and greatly expands on, the pamphlets he has published in the past five years with Michael Schmidt's Lintott Press), meets his childhood and family history head-on. read more Elaine Feinstein, The Times , 26 May 2012. read more We Look Like This , Dan Burt's first full collection (which includes poems from, and greatly expands on, the pamphlets he has published in the past five years with Michael Schmidt's Lintott Press), meets his childhood and family history head-on. read more Elaine Feinstein, The Times , 26 May 2012. read more Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012) (2 May 2012) From Launch of Dan Burt's poetry collection We Look Like This (2 May 2012)	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Let's Gimbal! read more Carcanet New Poetry Showcase: The Audience Writes Back read more John Gallas: A Little Andaluciad read more Carcanet Poetry Showcase: 30th April read more The Manchester Writing Competition 2013 read more Six Sixty-Six: Infinity by Gabriel Josipovici read more
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