Education
He graduated with a Bachelor from Cambridge University in 1997, was the Joseph Hodges Choate Fellow at Harvard University 1997-1998, and gained his Doctor of Philosophy, titled "J. H. Prynne and philology", in 2004, again from Cambridge.
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Keston Sutherland
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He is currently (Autumn 2013) the Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Sutherland lives in Brighton, United Kingdom. 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.
He has been invited to read in France, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Finland, China and the United States of America. His poems have been translated into foreign languages including German, Greek, French, Finnish and Chinese.
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".
Achievements
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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). lieutenant has been reviewed as "the most remarkable poem in English published this century".
