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| Jonathan Barker was educated at the University of London. He has worked as Librarian of the Arts Council Poetry Library and as Assistant Secretary of the Poetry Book Society. He has edited two bibliographies of contemporary poetry, two poetry anthologies, editions of the poems of W H Davies and Norman Cameron and a book of critical essays on Edward Thomas. At the British Council he is responsible for literature work in Western Europe, North America and is a Regional Arts Co-ordinator for North and Central Europe. He co-ordinated the British Council’s 2004 Edinburgh literature showcase in conjunction with the Edinburgh International Book festival and, also in 2004, was the literature co-ordinator for the British Council’s 70th anniversary poetry and music event at the Theatre Royal Stratford East hosted by Benjamin Zephaniah. He has judged the National Poetry Competition with Edwin Morgan and George Szirtes and, in 2003, was a judge for the Whitbread Book Awards. |
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