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Sebastian Smart Barker FRSL (16 April 1945 – 31 January 2014) was a British poet notable for a visionary manner that has been compared to William Blake in its use of the long ecstatic line and its "ability to write lyric poetry which used simple words to encapsulate profound meanings". [1]
Sebastian Barker (1945–2014) was the author of many books of poetry and editor of The London Magazine. An ex-chairman of the Poetry Society, he was a director of several literary festivals, including the Royal Berkshire Poetry Festival, and held various writer-in-residence positions; he was the recipient of awards from the Arts Council, the ...
Sebastian Smart Barker FRSL (16 April 1945 – 31 January 2014) was a British poet notable for a visionary manner that has been compared to William Blake in its use of the long ecstatic line and its "ability to write lyric poetry which used simple words to encapsulate profound meanings".
Apr 1, 2015 · Barker was born in 1945, and died in 2014 at the age of 68, from a heart attack only a few days after an event to launch his latest collection, The Land of Gold. He was the author of fourteen volumes of poetry as well as three collections of philosophical, theological and cultural essays.
Sebastian Barker (1945 – 2014) was the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, as well as three collections of philosophical, theological and cultural essays. Chairman of the Poetry Society 1988-1992, he was a Hawthornden Fellow, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
With the visits of these two great writers, blessings were bestowed on the Lion House and sparks fell as the newly domiciled Sebastian Barker began to produce poems of local honesty and great lyrical beauty.
Jan 16, 1993 · SEBASTIAN BARKER's long poem about Nietzsche, partly written in prose, is by any usual artistic standard a disaster.
