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Anthony Barnett (poet)
Anthony Barnett is an English poet, essayist and music historian. Literary worksBarnett's volumes of poetry and short prose include collected Poems &,[1] collected Translations,[2] Translations Addenda,[3] Lithos,[4] The Making of a Story,[5] Like Those of an Eerie Ruin,[6] Book Paradise: Spillikins (with drawings by Lucy Rose Cunningham).[7] Antonyms Anew: Barbs & Loves is a collection of critical essays.[8] He was the publisher of the first edition of J. H. Prynne’s collected Poems (1982), and edited Veronica Forrest-Thomson's Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Collected Poems (2008). Barnett's work is represented in the anthologies A Various Art; Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991; Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970; Cambridge University Press Contexts in Literature Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry Since 1990. His translations include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Anne-Marie Albiach, Roger Giroux, Pär Lagerkvist, Tarjei Vesaas, Andrea Zanzotto. Separate books of translation include Osip Mandelstam, Whoever Has Found a Horseshoe, with drawings by Lucy Rose Cunningham (2023),[9] and Elsa Morante, Alibi, with paintings and drawings by Monica Ferrando (2024).[10] In 2002 he was visiting scholar at the Center for International Programs, Meiji University, Tokyo. The lecture he gave there is published as InExperience and UnCommon Sense in Translation.[11] He co-edits and publishes the literary, music and arts journal Snow lit rev (from 2013).[12] His one-act play The Literature Director, lampooning the British Council and the English Arts Council, written in 2012, was posted online in 2023 at Fortnightly Review. Music worksHe has worked as a percussionist, notably with John Tchicai.[13] Barnett has written extensively on African-American violinists, in particular Stuff Smith: Desert Sands, Eddie South: Black Gypsy, Juice Wilson: Fallen from the Moon: Robert Edward Juice Wilson: His Life on Earth: A Dossier. He produces CDs on his AB Fable Violin Improvisation Studies label, and for other labels. He is the author of Listening for Henry Crowder: A Monograph on His Almost Lost Music (Allardyce Book, 2007), about the pianist consort of Nancy Cunard. UnNatural Music: John Lennon & Yoko Ono in Cambridge 1969 is his account of the circumstances surrounding their appearance at the Natural Music concert, which he produced.[14] References
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