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Synopsis
From the philosophical to the spiritual, Barker's poems exhibit a remarkable levity and profundity. This selection includes Lyrics, Narratives, Adaptations, Incantations, and Love Poems of a daring complexity and insight - at once swift and clear, the next moment ripe with allusion. "Shockwaves" (for Robert Nye) - green and gracious Greece, in early May I saw you young and walking on your way Tender with flowers, taunting me in bars I slipped between, detoxified, to be The human philosophical vision Of the blue sanctuary of the sea And the iconostasis of the stars.
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About the Author
After receiving an MA in Natural Science from Oxford University and an MA in English Literature from the University of East Anglia, Sebastian Barker worked as a carpenter, a fireman, and a cataloguer of Modern First Editions at Sotheby's. He then worked as a writer in residence in Berkshire and Lincolnshire, founded and directed literature festivals, and built a house in the Greek mountains. From 1988 to 1992 he was Chairman of The Poetry Society. He also worked for English P.E.N., the Nietzsche Society of Great Britain, and the English College Foundation in Prague.In the 1990s, Sebastian Barker published three works of poetry, Guarding the Border: Selected Poems (Enitharmon, 1992), The Dream of Intelligence (Littlewood Arc, 1992, a long poem based on Nietzsche's life and works), and The Hand in the Well (Enitharmon, 1996).A Hawthornden Fellow, he lives in Stamford Hill in northeast London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and in 2002 appointed successor of John Lehmann and Alan Ross as Editor of The London Magazine.
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