Reviews and Interviews
Sasha Dugdale interviews Dan Burt about his new "Collected" "Late Self Portrait"
PN Review 291 (Sept.-Oct. 2026). Sasha Dugdale questions Dan Burt about his new "Collected", “Late Self-Portrait”, his poetics and the origins of his writings.
"As readers of your memoir and earlier books of poetry will know,
you cleave very close to the events and circumstances of your life
in your writing. Does that mean that you began writing late? And is
the muse for you an elegiac and retrospective one?”…. (Sasha
Dugdales first questions to Dan Burt in PN Review 291 interview.)
Alain de Botton Praises Every Wrong Direction
8 November, 2022
British author and philosopher Alain de Botton praises Every Wrong Direction.
Buzz Magazine Reviews A History
3 November 2022
Mab Jones from Buzz Magazine, an online poetry magazine with over 75,000 readers, reviews A History
Times Literary Supplement Reviews Salvage at Twilight
September, 2020
Dan Burt is a poet from a corporate corner of the real world: Salvage at Twilight is his second full-length collection after a career in law and business. Like its predecessor, We Look Like This (2012), it is a compendium of prose memoir and short poems, the latter taking up two thirds of its length, and mostly consisting of life studies:
Poetry East Interviews Dan Burt
Jade Cuttle Reviews Salvage at Twilight
January 2020
The Poetry Book Society's guest Jade Cuttle reviews Dan Burt's recent publication "Salvage at Twilight" as part of their Winter Reading selection.