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Chris Gutkind: I was born in 1963 in The Hague to an American mother and British father, the latter a German-Jewish refugee in the UK during the war. I spent most of my first 24 years in Montreal and moved to London in 1988 where I work as a librarian. I lived in Berkeley, California, from 1999-2003. I hold British, American, and Canadian citizenships, something which has given me a very strange sense of home. I consider myself Atlantic in basis but international in outlook. If I have a religion it is wonder. Most of my work has been published in poetry magazines in the UK. I was part of an anthology by Stride called The Stumbling Dance in 1994 . A first collection of poems was published in 2006, Inside to Outside, by Shearsman Books. It contains poems written over sixteen years. I do readings in London when I can and I’m always open to doing more if asked.
Comments about Inside to Outside:
This is a tautly balanced lyric poetry, a poetry of human warmth, that isn’t just dug inwards but spirals out, as real lyric should, and then is mapped into the worlds where we are. Don’t let this book go by undetected.
Stephen Watts
Christopher Gutkind’s poetry is unlike anyone else’s and has many fine qualities, not least its uneasy lyricism and honesty, its capacity for surprise, its often fleecy textures and tough underlying structures.
David Miller
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