Poets

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Ben Barton's poems have appeared in Acorn, Ancient Heart, Cauldron, Delivered, Isibongo, Jugular, Linkway, Masque, Merely Pictures, New Horizon, Panda, Parameter, The Poetry Church, Poetry Greece, Poetry Kit Magazine, Poetry Now, Red Fog, Roadworks, Scorched Earth, Scriptor, Secret Attic, Sentinel, Springboard, Taoism & Poetry, Time Haiku, Writing Magazine, The Ugly Tree, X Magazine and countless small-press magazines.

In 1997 he won first prize in the Ottakar's/Faber poetry competition for National Poetry Day in his home county of Kent. The following year his poem The Re-Birth Remembered repeated this success by winning the competition again. The poem was also a winner in the National Competition and was published in the winners anthology. He was sixteen. Reviews at the time called him ‘Britain’s youngest, most published poet’.

Ben edited Words for Mercy, a poetry anthology for the charity Tearfund which included contributions by Seamus Heaney, amongst others. He has also performed work as part of the Canterbury Streetlevel Festival and was awarded a prize by Poetry Update. As a gay writer, he is working to break down barriers and to share his work through performance and publishing.

He has featured in the bestselling Writing Magazine, having his work reviewed and discussed in the Poetry Wor..