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John Barton (born 1957) is a Canadian poet.
Early life
Barton was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1957 and was raised in Calgary.
Education
Barton studied at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Quebec, University of Victoria, University of Western Ontario and Columbia University in New York.
He originally wanted to study architecture but instead enrolled in English and French courses in the Faculté Saint-Jean and the University of Alberta, where he studied from 1975 to 1978. He transferred to the University of Victoria, where he graduated with a BA in Creative Writing in 1981. He started but not finish an MFA in Writing at Columbia University in New York in 1983. In 1986, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with a Master of Library and Information Science. He later studied Book Editing at the Banff Publishing Centre in 1994 and magazine editing with Magazines Canada in 2005.
Barton studied poetry with Eli Mandel, Gary Geddes, Robin Skelton, Joseph Brodsky, and Daniel Halpern.
Career
Barton has published twelve books of poetry.
Since 1980 his poems have appeared in seventy-five magazines and thirty anthologies in North America, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.
Barton was co-editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 1990 to 2003. He edited The Malahat Review from 2004 to 2018 and was poetry editor for Winnipeg's Signature Editions from 2006 5 to 2008. He co-founded Arc's Poem of the Year Contest in 1996. He was writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library from September 2008 to May 2008. During the 2010/11 academic year, he was writer-in-residence at University of New Brunswick and in the fall 2015 term, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Additionally he worked as a librarian and editor for five museums in Ottawa between 1986 and 2003. He has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since 2004.
He and Billeh Nickerson co-edited the anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, published in 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press. In 2012, his Selected Poems were published by Nightwood. In 2020, The Essential Douglas LePan, which he edited and introduced, won the eLit Award (Gold Category) for Poetry. Lost Family: A Memoir was nominated for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry in 2021, the same year he was declared a Gay Icon by The Fiddlehead. In 2022, he was the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2023 for Biblioasis.
Awards
1986: Patricia Hackett Prize, University of Western Australia
1988: Archibald Lampman Award, for West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait
1995: Archibald Lampman Award, for Designs from the Interior
1995: Ottawa Book Award
1999: Archibald Lampman Award, for Sweet Ellipsis
2003: CBC Literary Award (Second Prize)
2006: National Magazine Award (Silver)
2019: Victoria's Poet Laureate
2021: Life Member, League of Canadian Poets
2020: eLit Award for Poetry
Works
= Poetry
=1981: A Poor Photographer. Sono Nis Press
1984: Hidden Structure. Ekstasis Editions
1987: West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a Self-Portrait. Penumbra Press
1990: Great Men. Quarry Press
1993: Notes Toward a Family Tree. Quarry Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55082-066-9.
1994: Designs from the Interior. Anansi. 1994. ISBN 978-0-88784-558-1.
1998: Sweet Ellipsis. ECW Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-55022-354-5.
1999: West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait 2nd ed edition. Dundurn Press Ltd. 1999. ISBN 978-0-88878-402-5.
2001: Hypothesis. House of Anansi Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-88784-659-5.
2006: West of Darkness: Emily Carr, A Self-Portrait / A l’ombre de l’ouest: Emily Carr, un autoportrait. First bilingual edition. BuschekBooks
2009: Hymn. Brick Books
2012: For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems. Nightwood Editions
2014: Polari. Goose Lane Editions
2020: Lost Family: A Memoir. Signal Editions
= Chapbooks
=1995: Destinations, Leaving the Map, above/ground press
1999: Oxygen, above/ground press
1999: Shroud. Viola Leaflets. 1999. ISBN 978-0-9684308-0-4.
2003: Runoff. Viola Leaflets. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9684308-1-1.
2004 Asymmetries, Frog Hollow Press Book One: House of the Present; Book Two: The Strata.
2012: Balletomane: The Program Notes of Lincoln Kirstein. JackPine
2016: Reframing Paul Cadmus: Pictures from an Exhibition. above/ground press
2018: Windsock. Frog Hollow Press
2018: Visible But Not Seen: Queer Expression in the Age of Equity. Anstruther Press
2024: Stopwatch. Emergency Flash Mob Press
Essays
2019: We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos. Palimpsest Press
= Criticism
="Trends in Canadian Poetry", Educational Insights, 11(1)
= Editor
=1998 John Barton, ed. (1998). We all begin in a little magazine: Arc and the promise of Canada's poets, 1978-1998. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-88629-325-3.
2007 John Barton, Billeh Nickerson, ed. (2007). Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 978-1-55152-217-3.
2oyThe Malahat at Fifty: Canada's Iconic Literary Magazine, 2017. University of Victoria Libraries
The Essential Douglas LePan, 2019. The Porcupine's Quill
The Essential Derk Wynand, 2020. The Porcupine's Quill
Best Canadian Poetry 2023, 2022. Biblioasis
References
External links
Canadian Poets, University of Toronto Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
"John Barton - Interview", Literary Photographer, October 24, 2008
Poet Laureate, City of Victoria
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