Barker, Sebastian

Sebastian Barker (1945 – 2014) was the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, as well as three collections of philosophical, theological and cultural essays. Chairman of the Poetry Society 1988-1992, he was a Hawthornden Fellow, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has worked as a writer-in-residence and was editor of The London Magazine from 2002 to 2008.