Salvage At Twilight

Burt Dan

The poet – a man of the world in the widest sense – reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with "Deposition", a harrowing elegy in five parts: the beloved endures "her Nile of pain"; the lover attends as she is treated, the last scene postponed until the two selves are quite differently refined. His editor has written, "Dan Burt's poetry, like his prose, explores themes unusual in contemporary literature, using a language that is precise, nuanced and mordant. And he risks traditional forms, his sonnets and quatrains mastered and masterful".

About the Author

Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local Catholic college before reading English at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating from Yale Law School he practised law in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Britain before moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College and lives and writes in London and Cambridge. His poetry publications include the pamphlets "Searched For Text" (2008) and "Certain Windows" (2011), and "Cold Eye", a collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (2010), all published by Carcanet Press in the Lintott Press imprint. His poetry was included in "Carcanet's New Poetries V" anthology and has been published in periodicals including the "TLS", "Poetry Review", "The New Statesman", "Financial Times" and "PN Review".

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