John Barton (poet)

John Barton
Born 1957
Edmonton, Alberta
Occupation Poet
Language English
Nationality Canadian

John Barton (born 1957) is a Canadian poet.

Life

Barton was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1957 but was raised in Calgary.[1] He studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Quebec, Victoria University, and Columbia University in New York.

Barton has written ten books of poetry.

He originally wanted to study architecture but did poorly in calculus and was enrolled in English courses in the Faculté Saint-Jean at the University of Alberta. He became a poet upon realization that there were fewer factors affecting his ability to excel in his chosen vocation.[2] In 1986, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with a Master of Library and Information Science.[3] Also, Barton studied Book Editing at the Banff Publishing Centre in 1994.[4]

Barton studied poetry with Eli Mandel, Gary Geddes, Robin Skelton, Joseph Brodsky, and Daniel Halpern. Since 1980 his poems have appeared in seventy-five magazines and thirty anthologies in North America, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.[5]

Barton was co-editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 1990 to 1995.[6] He edits The Malahat Review[7] and is poetry editor for Winnipeg's Signature Editions. He co-founded the Poem of the Year Contest in 1996. He was writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library.[8] In 2010 he was writer-in-residence at University of New Brunswick. Additionally he worked as a librarian and editor for five museums in Ottawa.[9] He has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since 2004.

He and Billeh Nickerson co-edited the anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, published in 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press. In 2012 his Selected Poems were published by Nightwood.

Awards

Works

Poetry

Chapbooks

1999:* Oxygen, above/ground press

Criticism

Editor

References

External links

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