Here you can read a little about my publications and any new writing projects and events. My debut poetry collection, Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt Publishing) was shortlisted for 2008's Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes. Bonjour Tetris, a boxed mini-book of commissioned poems, was published by Penned in the Margins in 2010. My second Salt collection, Neptune Blue, was published in July 2011.
"Barraclough may see himself as travelling lightly through the world, but he catches the sense of what it's like to live in the modern city more astutely and more often than most other poets." (Laurie Smith, Magma)
A poem for the planet Neptune's '1st birthday'. 164.79 years since discovery:
I'm going to update the look and feel of the site soon, so there may be a little disruption.
I'm running a workshop called 'Inspired by Silence' at London's South Bank Centre on Saturday January 28th, 2012. The workshop will be followed by a public reading by participants. Details here.
Three animated poems from Neptune Blue.
On poetry and planets: a fairly meaty chat over at Peony Moon.
Some poems from Neptune Blue at the Peony Moon blog.
'Hindenburg Heart' at the Morning Star.
New mini-book of commissioned work Bonjour Tetris is available now from Penned in the Margins.
Article in Magma 47: Desert Island Styx. Satan selects his favourite poems.
Neptune
You're so blue
you probably think that Jarman's Blue
is about you.
You're the source of all blue,
of Edwin Morgan's ‘Little Blue Blue’,
inexhaustiblue,
bluemungous, ur-blue.
Earth blue held up to you
is muck ball brown and grass stain green,
our oceans but a drop,
a dust of moth,
a mote of you.
From Neptune Blue out now from Salt.