A History

About Dan Burt

Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia and went to Philadelphia public schools and a local commuter college LaSalle. He read English at St. Johns College Cambridge University 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. Johns. Carcanet Press published his first poetry collection Searched For Text in 2008 and his fourth Salvage at Twilight 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). UK and US 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. His memoir Every Wrong Direction will be published in the US by Rutgers University Press in September 2022 and by Carcanet Press in the UK in October 2022. He lives and writes in London Cambridge and Schooner Head Maine.