Sebastian Barker

Sebastian Barker

Sebastian Barker, born in 1945, is a British poet, son of George Barker and Elizabeth Smart. He has been on the executive committee of P.E.N. and was the Chairman of the Poetry Society from 1988 to 1992. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.In 2002 he took over editorship of the "London Magazine", which he resigned from in 2007 after the Arts Council England had cut the magazine's funding. His earlier collections, which include "On the Rocks" (Brian & O'Keeffe 1977), and "A Nuclear Ephiphany" (Friday Night Fish Publications, 1984) were brought together in a volume of selected poems, "Guarding the Border", published by Enitharmon Press in 1992. More recent collections include "The Dream of Intelligence" (Littlewood Arc, 1992, a long poem based on Nietzsche’s life and works), "The Hand in the Well" (Enitharmon, 1996), "Damnatio Memoriae" (Enitharmon, 2004), and "The Erotics of God" (Smokestack Books, 2005).

External links

* [http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=5564 Sebastian Barker - Poetry Archive] website
* [http://www.enitharmon.co.uk Enitharmon Press] website
* [http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk/ Smokestack Books] website
* [http://www.thelondonmagazine.net/ The London Magazine] website
* [http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/sebastian_barker_f01543.aspx Inpress] website


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