Anthony Barnett is an English poet, essayist and

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Barnett's volumes of poetry and short prose include collected ''Poems &'', collected ''Translations'', ''Translations Addenda'', ''Lithos'', ''The Making of a Story'', ''Like Those of an Eerie Ruin'', ''Book Paradise: Spillikins'' (with drawings by Lucy Rose Cunningham). ''Antonyms Anew: Barbs & Loves'' is a collection of critical essays. 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

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, Roger Giroux,

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, Andrea Zanzotto. Separate books of translation include

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, ''Whoever Has Found a Horseshoe'', with drawings by Lucy Rose Cunningham (2023), and

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, ''Alibi'', with paintings and drawings by Monica Ferrando (2024). 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''. He co-edits and publishes the literary, music and arts journal ''Snow lit rev'' (from 2013). 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''.

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He has worked as a percussionist, notably with

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. Barnett has written extensively on African-American violinists, in particular

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: ''Desert Sands'',

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: ''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

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. ''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.

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* Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers / AB Fable: http://www.abar.net * ''UnNatural Music'': http://www.abar.net/lennonono.pdf * ''Listening for Henry Crowder'': http://www.abar.net/crowder.htm * ''Fallen from the Moon'': http://www.abar.net/moon.pdf * ''The Literature Director'': https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/03/barnett-lit-director/ * Table ronde "Anthony Barnett, poète-traducteur multilingue": https://quaderna.org/6/table-ronde-anthony-barnett-poete-traducteur-multilingue/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Barnett, Anthony Living people English music historians English male poets English male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people)

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