Cold Eye
"Cold Eye" is a creative collaboration between an artist and a poet. The ten images explore ten poems, which in turn focus in on and explore the images. Things are fragmented, things are restored, and the restoration enhances our sense of the visible world and the world of language. This unusual collaboration has resulted in a wholly unique volume, large in scale and compelling in design and production. We read pictures and see poetry in quite new ways.
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". In 2006, he produced a series of works for an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
Hodgson is represented by Marlborough Fine Art. He currently lives and works in London.
Hodgson is represented by Marlborough Fine Art. He currently lives and works in London.
Reviews
"Dan Burt's poems are strikingly ambitious. His language is terse to the point of brutality; the verbs ferocious, often monosyllabic; his core conviction, formed by the history of the twentieth century and a lifetime in a non-literary world, is of 'the curtain falling on the Enlightenment" – Elaine Feinstein
"Taken all together, Paul Hodgson's pictures make a powerful address to perennial questions about the self and its ability to articulate an identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits" – Andrew Motion
"Taken all together, Paul Hodgson's pictures make a powerful address to perennial questions about the self and its ability to articulate an identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits" – Andrew Motion