Tony Baker was born in south
London in 1954 on J.S.Bach's birthday. He studied piano and composition
at Trinity College, London, literature at Cambridge University and
subsequently completed a PhD on William Carlos Williams at Durham
University in 1982. Since then he has worked mainly as a musician and
ecologist. He has written a book on the history of mycology and
co-authored another on creative work with autistic children. He has
collaborated widely with people working across the arts - dancers,
musicians, painters, poets - and is especially drawn to improvised
performance. Between 1980 and 1989 he edited and published the poetry
magazine Figs and has contributed to
numerous magazines and anthologies. His writing has been translated
into French and Czech. He has lived in France since 1995 amongst the vineyards near
Angers. For more, go to his entry at the British Electronic Poetry Centre. |  |
Tony Baker: IN TRANSIT |
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£ 7.50
This book gathers together poems and sequences from the past decade or more, previously unpublished or only available in small or out of print editions.
"We've waited too long for a big collection of Tony Baker's poems. Such graceful play and loving work. His sentences always surprise, weaving from line to line in his very own exhilarating syntax - yes of course he's a musician, an improviser par excellence. And much too witty ever to stop looking at 'the manifest we walk amongst', from tiniest insect to most questionable human." Alan Halsey 2005, 1-874400-30-X, 152pp, price £7.50 |
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