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Keston M. Sutherland (born 1976) is a British poet, and Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex. He is currently (Autumn 2013) the Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Background
Keston M. Sutherland lives in Brighton, UK. He graduated with a BA from Cambridge University in 1997, was the Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow at Harvard University 1997-8, and gained his PhD, titled 'J. H. Prynne and philology', in 2004, again from Cambridge. He has worked at Sussex since 2004.
Sutherland is the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press. His poetry has been compared to J. H. Prynne, John Wilkinson, and Drew Milne. His work has won international recognition: his major 2007 poem Hot White Andy was first published in the United States in a special issue of Chicago Review showcasing four young British poets (Sutherland, Andrea Brady, Chris Goode and Peter Manson); it has been reviewed as "the most remarkable poem in English published this century". He has been invited to read in France, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Finland, China and the USA; his poems have been translated into foreign languages including German, Greek, French, Finnish and Chinese.
Together with his colleagues at the University of Sussex, Sam Solomon and Joe Luna, Sutherland runs the Sussex Poetry Festival, an annual two-day celebration of nonconformist and avant-garde poetry and music in Brighton, UK. The Festival began in 2009.
His book on Marx and poetry, Stupefaction: a radical anatomy of phantoms was published by Seagull Books in May 2011.
He is also a part of a Brighton-based band named Pence Eleven; their greatest hit being "Trying To Get Dressed".
Poetry collections
- Poetical Works 1999-2015, (Enitharmon, 2015)
- The Odes to TL61P, (Enitharmon, 2013)
- The Stats on Infinity, (Crater, 2010)
- Stress Position, (Barque Press, 2009)
- Hot White Andy, (Barque Press, 2007)
- Neocosis, (Barque Press, 2005)
- Neutrality, (Barque Press, 2004)
- The Rictus Flag, (Object Permanence, 2003)
- Antifreeze, (Barque Press,2002)
- Bar Zero, (Barque Press, 2000)
- Mincemeat Seesaw, (Barque Press, 1999)
- At The Motel Partial Opportunity, (Barque Press, 1998)
- Hate’s Clitoris and Other Poems, (Barque Press, 1997)
- Lidia, (Equipage, 1996)
- Prag, (Equipage, 1996)
- Have Wishly, (Barque Press, 1995)
- 20 Poems, (with Andrea Brady; Barque Press, 1995)