Reviews and Interviews
Boot Camp - Republished by PN Review on Substack, October 29, 2026
Read "Boot Camp" on PN Review's Substack
In "Boot Camp," Dan Burt recounts a formative encounter with the rigorous discipline of poetry editing. Despite decades of experience as a lawyer and writer, he discovers that poetry demands a different command of language, rhythm, imagery, and restraint. Through the patient but uncompromising guidance of his editor, Burt reflects on the lessons that helped transform his approach to writing poetry.
PN Review 271 (May–June 2023). Republished by PN Review on Substack, October 29, 2026.
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 Dugdale's first questions to Dan Burt in the 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
