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Cold Eye is a creative collaboration between an artist and a poet. The ten images explore ten poems, which in turn focus in on and explore the images. Things are fragmented, things are restored, and the restoration enhances our sense of the visible world and the world of language. This unusual collaboration has resulted in a wholly unique volume, large in scale and compelling in design and production. We read pictures and see poetry in quite new ways.

Dan Burt’s poems are strikingly ambitious. His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious, often monosyllabic; his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of ‘the curtain falling on the Enlightenment. - Elaine Feinstein

Taken all together, Paul Hodgson’s pictures make a powerful address to perennial questions about the self and its ability to articulate an identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits. - Andrew Motion

Dan Burt

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 ... read more

Paul Hodgson

Paul Hodgson was born in Shrewsbury in 1972. He graduated from the Department of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1995, and the Royal College of Art in 2000. It was here, as a printmaking student, that he began to combine photography, print and digital media, in ... read more

Praise for Dan Burt This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. '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 This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. '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 This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' Suzy Feay, the Independent '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 'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious... his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of "the curtain falling on the Enlightenment".' Elaine Feinstein, PN Review '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

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Cold Eye Dan Burt and Paul Hodgson RRP: GBP£ 49.95 Discount: 10% You Save: GBP£ 5.00 Price: GBP£ 44.95 Available Limited Edition ISBN: 978 1 847771 05 6 Categories: 21st Century, Art Imprint: Lintott Press Published: September 2010 363 x 297 mm 88 pages Publisher: Lintott Press Description Authors Reviews Cold Eye is a creative collaboration between an artist and a poet. The ten images explore ten poems, which in turn focus in on and explore the images. Things are fragmented, things are restored, and the restoration enhances our sense of the visible world and the world of language. This unusual collaboration has resulted in a wholly unique volume, large in scale and compelling in design and production. We read pictures and see poetry in quite new ways. Dan Burt’s poems are strikingly ambitious. His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious, often monosyllabic; his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of ‘the curtain falling on the Enlightenment. - Elaine Feinstein Taken all together, Paul Hodgson’s pictures make a powerful address to perennial questions about the self and its ability to articulate an identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits. - Andrew Motion Dan Burt 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 ... read more Paul Hodgson Paul Hodgson was born in Shrewsbury in 1972. He graduated from the Department of Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1995, and the Royal College of Art in 2000. It was here, as a printmaking student, that he began to combine photography, print and digital media, in ... read more Praise for Dan Burt This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. '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 This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. '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 This is a major debut. Burt's tough, terse language explores the human truth reached when all protective skin is stripped away. - Elaine Feinstein, The Times, 26th May 2012. 'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' Suzy Feay, the Independent '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 'His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious... his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of "the curtain falling on the Enlightenment".' Elaine Feinstein, PN Review '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 You might also be interested in: Likenesses Judith Aronson	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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Cold Eye

Dan Burt and Paul Hodgson