Published Poetry

His volumes of poetry and short prose include collected The Resting Bell (Allardyce, Barnett, 1987) and Miscanthus: Selected and New Poems (Shearsman, 2005). He was the publisher of the first edition of J. H. Prynne

J. H. Prynne

Jeremy Halvard Prynne is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962; Prynne has excluded it from his canon...

’s collected Poems (1982) and edited Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Veronica Forrest-Thomson grew up in Glasgow, Scotland, studied at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, and later taught at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham. She was both a poet and a critical theorist, and her critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry...

’s Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Collected Poems (2008). His work is represented in the anthologies A Various Art; Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991; "Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970

Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970

Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 is a poetry anthology edited by Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, and published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press...

; and Cambridge University Press Contexts in Literature Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry Since 1990. His translations include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story". He committed suicide at age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.-Early life:...

, Anne-Marie Albiach

Anne-Marie Albiach

Anne-Marie Albiach is a contemporary French poet and translator.-Overview:Anne-Marie Albiach's poetry is characterized by, among other things, an inventive use of spacing on the printed page...

, Roger Giroux

Roger Giroux

Roger Giroux was a French poet. Giroux's one book was awarded the Prix Max Jacob award. Translator of W.B. Yeats, Lawrence Durrell, and others. A sample of his poems is included in , edited by Paul Auster, and generally recognized as the best anthology of Modern French poetry in English...

, Pär Lagerkvist, Tarjei Vesaas and Andrea Zanzotto

Andrea Zanzotto

-Biography:Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo , Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi.His father, Giovanni , had received degrees from the École supèrieure de peinture at Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts at Bologna...

. In 2002 he was visiting scholar at the Center for International Programs, Meiji University, Tokyo.

He has worked as a percussionist, notably with John Tchicai, and has written extensively on African-American violinists, in particular Stuff Smith and Eddie South. He is also the author of a book about the pianist friend of Nancy Cunard

Nancy Cunard

Nancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism...

Listening for Henry Crowder (Allardyce Book, 2007). He produces CDs for the AB Fable Violin Improvisation Studies series.

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1. AB Literary and Music Publishing: http://www.abar.net
2. Profile: http://www.abar.net/ab.html
3. Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians: http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/2007/10/18/barnett-anthony-peter-john
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5. Citations from http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/barnettA.html
6. Citations from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Albiach