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Ben Barton resides in Folkestone, England and has now been
making a career from his poetry for five years. This ´career´
entails not only publication, but also reading, performance
and active workshops at dozens of venues nationwide.
Ben has had hundreds of poems published internationally
in a variety of books and magazines. Such publications include
Isibongo, The Curates Egg, Poetry Church, Acorn, New Horizon,
Time Haiku, Linkway, Poets Haven, Sci-Fright, Taoism and Poetry,
Roadworks, Jugular and the prestigious writers journal Scriptor,
along with countless other small-press publications. Aged just
eighteen, Ben is arguably the youngest, most published poet in
Britain today.
Ben has now been awarded the Kent Faber & Faber (UK) Poetry prize for
National Poetry Day two years consecutively. In 1998 he was a winner in the
National Competition judged by Roger McGough and Wendy Cope. His work has
also been selected by state hospitals in Pennsylvania, USA as part of an
information pack to aid and comfort parents in ´OB´ units. He has performed
his work as part of the Canterbury Streetlevel Festival and held readings
through the ´Ottakars´ chain of bookshops. His work has also been examined
in the biggest-selling writing magazine in the UK, Writers News/Writers Magazine.
Ben has also been awarded prizes by The Marlowe Theatre and Poetry Update.
He is currently working on new material alongside his studies, to be released
later on this year.
All poems on this site ©Ben Barton 2001.
