Bill of Delights

Bill of Delights …bosun wharf.  That corduroy anorak  molded you…       *  …al dente.  Gash eggplant.  Trickle…       *  …kite-flying matinee idol.  The accessory…       *  …gravel rash.  We zigzagged  in fairyground…  Christmas 2001, The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored Christopher Barnes to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North.  […]

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In Our Tinselled Cosmos

Christopher Barnes’ first collection LOVEBITES is published by Chanticleer.  Each year he reads at Poetry Scotland’s Callender Poetry Weekend.  He also writes art criticism which has been published in Peel and Combustus magazines. In Our Tinselled Cosmos An elephant Vosined herself Into a bleb. Floaty postures. The all-wise orbit Must creep through this. I final-whistle […]

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Plastics Enlighten

Christopher Barnes’ first collection LOVEBITES is published by Chanticleer.  Each year he reads at Poetry Scotland’s Callender Poetry Weekend.  He also writes art criticism which has been published in Peel and Combustus magazines. Plastics Enlighten An overflow of nativities and perishings Drag keen wits to brainsick days. These lollygags are moments In giddy assent. This […]

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Nectar

Christopher Barnes’ first collection LOVEBITES is published by Chanticleer.  Each year he reads at Poetry Scotland’s Callender Poetry Weekend.  He also writes art criticism which has been published in Peel and Combustus magazines. Nectar A blow-up gigolo, In-the-raw, keeps one door ajar. Elation’s treasure house Is a pipe inhalation. Mouldering and resurrection’s crossflow Will seize […]

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