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EDUCATION
University of East Anglia, 1969-1970, MA English Literature.
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, 1964-1968, MA Natural Science.
King's School Canterbury, 1958-1963.
CAREER EXPERIENCE
Poet and self-employed writer, 1977-present.
Editor, The London Magazine, January 2002-December 2007.
Chairman, The Poetry Society, 1988-1992.
Co-director, First Royal Berkshire Poetry Festival, 1985.
Writer-in-Residence, Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire, 1984-1985.
Director, Surrey Literature Festival, 1984.
Writer-in-Residence, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Brackell, Berkshire, 1980-1983.
Director, Bracknell Literature Festival, 1980, 1981, 1982.
Cataloguer of Modern First Editions, Sotheby's, 1976-1977.
Furniture restorer, carpenter, and fireman, 1971-1976.
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1997.
Royal Literary Fund Award, 1993.
Hawthornden Fellow, 1990.
Society of Authors Award, 1990.
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, 1988.
Arts Council Award for Poetry, 1976.
PUBLICATIONS
The Erotics of God, Smokestack Books, 2005
The Matter of Europe, Menard Press, 2005
Damnatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory, Enitharmon Press, 2004
The Hand in the Well, Enitharmon Press, 1996
Guarding the Border: Selected Poems, Enitharmon Press, 1992
The Dream of Intelligence, Littlewood Arc, 1992
Lines For My Unborn Son, pamphlet, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1987
O Mother Heal Your Son, pamphlet, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1986
Boom, Free Man's Press, 1985
A Nuclear Epiphany, Friday Night Fish Publications, 1984
A Fire in the Rain, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1982
Epistles, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1980
Who Is Eddie Linden, documentary novel, Jay Landesman, 1979
On the Rocks, Martin Brian & O'Keeffe, 1977
The Dragon, Quill Books, 1976
Poems, The Cygnet Press, 1974
The Dream of Intelligence was Book of the Year in both The Independent and The Spectator; The Erotics of God was Book of the Year in The Tablet.
"London Magazine, which shone under John Lehmann and very differently under Alan Ross, is now a wholly new creature, with an almost holy agenda, under the visionary Sebastian Barker."
- Michael Schmidt, editor of PNReview, in The Guardian, 15th July 2006.
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