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 this year's Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes.
"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)
New pamphlet of commissioned poems: 'Bonjour Tetris' out in May from Penned in the Margins.
New poem about privatising snow: Incorrigibly Plural, written for Radio 4's history programme, 'The Long View'.
Four poems on Alex Pryce's 'Poetcasting' site.
New online magazine The Sampler.
'Jumper' and 'Braille' at Spine Magazine.
Bride of Pinbot
Fritz Languidly you’d lean against the wall.
Make me live! Make me sing!
We fingered pelvic flippers, shooting steel
around fallopians into your eyes and mouth
to try to flip your face from chrome to flesh.
Now I see you! I can speak!
The pounding heart, the gunshot crack
of Extra Life, arpeggios of thrill until
you wailed that you were turning back.
From Coin Opera (Sidekick Books)