Website: http://www.sebastianbarker.co.uk/

Blog: Sebastian Barker

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.