- Born
in 1934, near London, England.
- Studied
at the Royal Academy of Music, London, having won an
Open Scholarship in Composition, first as a Junior, from the age
of 13 to the age of 17, and then as a Full-Time student.
Began writing
music at the age of 12 and had several works performed by leading
groups, particularly Chamber Music groups, in London.
- Stopped
writing music in 1959 and began writing poetry in 1960.
Has worked in music publishing and as a film editor for BBC Television.
Has travelled and lived in France and in the United States between
1962 and 1969 :
- The
United States, 1964-1966, where he published a book of
poems BORN TO FLYING GLASS in New York
in 1967 at Harcourt, Brace and World ;
- France,
where he lived in Paris until he died of leukemia in 1969 and where
he wrote many of the poems included in THE
THICK SKIN and in AIN'T HUNG
YET.
KEITH BARNES' poems have been
published in various magazines including :
- The
Times Literary Supplement, Jack O' London, The Observer, Time and
Tide, Tribune, Ambit, New Republic, Mademoiselle...
have been translated into French in :
- Les
Lettres Nouvelles, in K.B., Editions Maurice Nadeau, Recueil,
La Lettre Internationale, Action Poétique, Sud
, Grèges, Arsenal, Poésie/ première, Encres
Vagabondes, Poésie 13, L'Ouvre-Boîte, la Braise et
l'Etincelle, Poésie sur Seine, Ecrit(s) du Nord, Le Nouveau
recueil, Poésie 2002 Le Journal des Poètes (Bruxelles,
2003), Jointure (2003/04) ....
- 2003 Publication
of KEITH BARNES Œuvre poétique/Collected Poems,
French translation by Jacqueline Starer, Opening by Maurice
Nadeau, éditions d’écarts, Paris.
have been read and/or broadcast by :
- In
the Sixties,The BBC Third Program, WBAI in New York, KPFA in
San Francisco and KPFK in Los Angeles,
- In
Paris in 2001, 2002 and 2003 at 'La
Maroquinerie' , 'Le
Club des Poètes', the 'Cercle
Aliénor', with the 'Rencontres
européennes', under the aegis of the 'Société des
Poètes Français', at the Senate, at the Café de
la Mairie, Place saint-Sulpice, at the 'Médiathèque
Florian' in Rambouillet, at the MLC of Montmorency.
- In
2003 and 2003, broadcast on IDFM Radio
Enghien Ile-de-France.
- In
2003 poem performed in London by ShadoWork
- In
2003 and 2004, broadcast on France Culture
/ Poésie
sur Parole.
- In 2004, has
been read at the MLC of Montmorency, in Paris at the
Cité Internationale Universitaire
de Paris, at Festival franco-anglais
de Poésie,
at the Gobelune and at the Galerie
MBH, had a poem published in La Quinzaine littéraire.
- In 2005 and 2006, has been read at the Club des Poètes, at the Déjeuner des Poètes organized by Le Journal des Poètes in Paris, at the MLC of Montmorency, has been performed by La Compagnie du Tapis Volant in La Ferté-Alais, in Essonne, read in Normandy in Pont-L’Évêque, at Les Puces Gourmandes, at Touch’ d’Auge, and at the Biennales Internationales de Poésie in Liège (Belgium).
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