• 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...

and 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 2002 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, 2006, 2007, 2008, 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,  at the  Médiathèque of Lisieux and at the Biennales Internationales de Poésie in Liège (Belgium).
  
  
• In 2007, K.B. Keith Barnes, by Jacqueline Starer, is published in a bilingual edition, English translation by Helen McPhail, at the éditions d’écarts, Dol-de-Bretagne, France.