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"The Pursuit Of Money And Morsels Of Power"
Commandos with certifiable
psychopathic rites, questing:-
sniper rifles, diaries,
the off-target sitting duck.
False colour charges of prearrangements
with underground nimbleness.
Pending - Gloria's sewing up a rick
on assembly lines, Astrid's prompting
bewitchment in bodiless truisms,
and Virginia's bandaging a fire-bomb
to a rafter at the Army Recruitment Centre.
To highlight night's backcloth
squint us...in situ are wreaths,
peculiar temporalities of the late-lamented.
Christopher Barnes in 1998 won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 he read at Waterstones
bookshop to promote the anthology Titles Are Bitches. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle's famous
Morden Tower doing a reading of his poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival
and he participated in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer
Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh. On Saturday 16th August 2003 he read at the Edinburgh Festival
as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
He also has a BBC webpage BBC
and Video Nation
(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.
Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored him to be mentored
by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. He made a radio programme for
Web FM community radio about his writing group. October-November 2005, he entered a poem/visual image
into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty's Newcastle.
This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. He made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney
and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival
party for Proudwords. The film is going into an archive at The Discovery Museum in Newcastle and
contains his poem "The Old Heave-Ho". He worked on a collaborative art and literature project called
How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle University before touring the country and it is expected to go abroad, funded
by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's Centre
for Life. He was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at
The Seven Stories children's literature building. In May 2006 he had a solo art/poetry exhibition
at The People's Theatre. Take a look at their website
Gilbenkian
The South Bank Centre in London recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never Had", and he can be heard reading it
on Poetry Magazines
Email: Christopher Barnes
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