Sebastian Barker - Poetry Archive. 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 Society of Authors and the Royal Literary Fund. The Dream of Intelligence was named as a Book of the Year in both The Independent and The Spectator, and his book, The Erotics of God, was The Tablet‘s Book of the Year in 2005. His career included stints as a furniture restorer, carpenter, fireman and cataloguer at Sotheby’s, and is perhaps best summed up by his autobiographical poem ‘Curriculum Vitae’.
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