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)

Wearing St Paul's

I scale these stairs for the sense of grandeur,
don the ball and cross as a kind of mitre,
thread the Golden Gallery about my waist,
hooking into my Sunday Best of faith,
embracing a change of heart and gender
as the dome spills out its slate-blue organza.
I stride through town in my giant skirts,
trailing their fringes through the London dirt.
Like subway draughts in The Seven Year Itch,
the winds of modernity gust and hitch
the hoops right over my head, revealing
canon and clergy hurriedly fleeing
down to the docks to sail back to Rome
to cling to the hem of that wider, safer, dome.

From Los Alamos Mon Amour