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Welcome to benbarton.co.uk

The website of British poet Ben Barton


You can read new poems in recent and forthcoming issues of The Arts Pneumonia, Awen, Caduta, The Cannon's Mouth, Chroma, The Coffee House, Concrete Meat Sheet, Decanto, The Delinquent, erbacce, iota, The Journal, Neon Highway, Open Wide Magazine, Poetry Monthly, Pulsar, SOUTH, Writing Magazine and the anthology Gay City

New poems online in Snakeskin
plus interviews and poems in Poetry Kit Magazine and Gloom Cupboard

Read a special preview of The Hospital poems online from Open Wide Magazine

Two new books will be published in 2008:
The Hospital from Roundeye Books, and drop, anchor from the erbacce press


I was also short listed for last year's Canterbury Festival 'Poet of the Year Award'

Thanks for visiting

Ben Barton


drop, anchor - isbn 978-1-906588-18-2

New chapbook drop, anchor now available from the erbacce press

erbacce press, liverpool | www.erbacce-press.com | drop, anchor | ISBN 978-1-906588-18-2 | RRP £3.99

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'Orlock' linocut by Mark Vanstone'Orlock' linocut by Mark Vanstone
Coming soon from
Roundeye Books

 

Ben's new collection
The Hospital
written in a dirty NHS bed

 

 

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to read the Open Wide Magazine Online Chapbook:
'Poems from The Hospital'

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to visit the Roundeye Books website

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to read more about The Hospital

 


 

 

 

After a decade of poems appearing in small-press magazines and chapbooks, Ben's first collection has finally been published!

Called The Red Book, this little paperback is something of a 'greatest hits', featuring many old favourites alongside previously unpublished poems.

Now in its second edition, the book reached number one on Amazon UK's 'Hot Books' poetry chart!

 

To get your hands on a copy, click below...

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"In February 2007, 3LIGHTS is proud to present a solo exhibition from British poet, Ben Barton. Having featured his work in our first exhibition, LAUNCH , we're very excited about welcoming Ben and more of his short-form poetry back to 3LIGHTS.

WALK/DON'T WALK will feature new work by Ben as well as some of the poems previously featured in LAUNCH. The exhibition will also include an exclusive interview with Ben on the subject of his shorter poetry.

The exhibition will begin on February 1st and will run until April 1st."

 

 

 

 

Photograph: ‘Prospect’ © Jennifer Harris 2006

PROSPECT at the Ashford Library Gallery

Combining words and photographs inspired by the landscapes of Dungeness,
Ben Barton and Jennifer Harris recently collaborated on PROSPECT

The exhibition was commissioned by Kent County Council and Headland, and was on show at the Ashford Library Gallery from September to October 2006

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Ben's poem 'Commandment No. 5'
is included in Razzamatazz and Other Poems,
published by Leaf Books

 

 

 


In 2005 Ben released video poems on several poetry blogs.
These short clips were first made to create interest in the poems that were going into The Red Book

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P O E T R Y
M A G A Z I N E S

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Pleasures of the Bitten Peach

Ben's writing has always included a number of short-form poems such as haiku, senryu and tanka

His manuscript of short poetry, Pleasures of the Bitten Peach, is currently unpublished

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NO ONE READS POETRY is the film Ben made for the BBC Video Nation project. First broadcast early 2004, the clip was noted in several poetry magazines and websites...

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