Keston Sutherland

Keston Sutherland (born 1976) is a British poet and Reader in English at the University of Sussex. He 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, Sara Crangle and Daniel Kane, 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 will be published by Seagull Books in May 2011.

He is also a part of a Brighton-based band named Pence Eleven, which they describe as 'Acousmatic / Tape music / Afro-beat / Christian Rap'; their greatest hit being 'Trying To Get Dressed'.

Poetry collections

• 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)

See also

• Critical Theory

External links

• Profile page at Sussex
• Barque Press

Further reading

• Keston Sutherland, 'Marx in Jargon,' World Picture 1.
• Keston Sutherland, 'Happiness in Writing' World Picture 3
• Keston Sutherland, 'Hilarious Absolute Daybreak' (on J.H. Prynne's Brass) Glossator 3
• Keston Sutherland, 'Upstairs Downstairs: From Intensity to Entitlement' Mute, 2009
• Keston Sutherland, 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson for Readers', Kenyon Review
• Brighton Poetry: An interview with Keston Sutherland by Zoe Sutherland, Danny Hayward and Jonty Tiplady' Naked Punch 14.
• Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves (ed.), Chicago Review: British Poetry Issue (53:1) 2007.
• Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves (ed.), Complicities: British Poetry 1945-2007 (Litteraria Pragensia, 2007).
• Neil Pattison, "Lyric Purity in Keston Sutherland's Hot White Andy" (Hot Gun 1, 2009).
• J. H. Prynne, "Hot White Andy" (Hot Gun 1, 2009).
• Adam Piette, Review of The Stats on Infinity, Blackbox Manifold 5.
• Peter Manson, Review of Stress Position, Signals 6