Description
About the Author
Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia, read English at St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1969, graduated from Yale Law School. He has practiced commercial, government, and public-interest law in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia; has been a businessman; and, since 2001, is an Honorary Fellow of St. John's. Carcanet Press published his first poetry collection in 2008 and his fourth in 2019. Marlborough Graphics / Lintott Press brought out a poetry and photography collaboration with Paul Hodgson (2010), and You Think It Strange, his brief childhood memoir, appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States (2014, 2015). U.K. and U.S. newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies have featured his poetry and prose-The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, Commonweal, TLS, Granta, PN Review, and Clutag Press, among others-as has the BBC and Poetry Archive. He lives and writes in London, Cambridge, and Schooner Head, Maine.
Reviews
'Dan Burt is a fine poet, and this memoir has all the sensitivity and vigilance you might expect from a writer with such a background. But his prose also has a robustness and documentary power that continually startles and engages.' - Sir Andrew Motion
Book Information
ISBN 9781800171909
Author Dan Burt
Format Paperback
Page Count 358
Imprint Lives and Letters
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd