'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

'Full of hard-won wisdom and beautiful lines, it's testament to the transforming power of poetry.' --Suzy Feay, The Independent

'The writing can hover and dance. It has genuine grace.' --George Szirtes

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia, read English at St John's College, Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and businessman, his poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, TLS, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, The Sunday Times, Granta, Commonweal, Clutag Five Poems Series, The Forward Book of Poetry (best poems of 2013), The Poetry of Sex (Penguin Anthology), The Institute News Letter (Institute for Advanced Study), Courtauld News, and New Poetries V (2011) amongst others. Two chapbooks, Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011) were published by Lintott/Carcanet Press, as well as a collaboration, Cold Eye, with artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough Graphics/Lintott Press, 2010). Carcanet published We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose, in May 2012. Notting Hill Editions published the UK edition of his memoir, You Think It Strange, in 2014, and Overlook Press the US edition in 2015. The Poetry Archive has twice recorded him reading his work. He lives and writes in London and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.

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