Dan Burt, honorary Fellow, announces book launch

Dan Burt, poet, author and honorary fellow of St John’s, will be holding a reception this evening to mark the launch of his new book You Think it Strange.

College members and staff are invited to attend the reception, which will be held in Heffers Bookshop, Trinity Street, tonight (Tuesday 18 February) from 6:30-7:45pm.

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942.  He attended state schools and a local Catholic college before reading English at Cambridge.  He graduated from Yale Law School and practised law in the United States, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia until moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen.  He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and lives and writes in London. 

His poetry first appeared in various journals including PN Review, edited by fellow-Johnian Professor Michael Schmidt. Since then, his publications include Searched for Text (2008) and Cold Eye (2010), a poetry and image collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson. More of his poems appeared in a Carcanet anthology, New Poetries 5 (October 2011) and We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose also published by Carcanet in the spring of 2012.

Burt’s latest work, You Think it Strange, was showcased in the November 2013 edition of Granta, and is an expanded version of his prose compilation first published in Certain Windows (2011).

Please contact Stefanie Giblin in the College Development Office for further information.