Background
Baker was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1958, and in 1985 he moved to Nottingham, where he still lives.
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Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010
(Variations on Painting a Room brings together ten years o...)
Variations on Painting a Room brings together ten years of small press publications by the poet Alan Baker, together with a large body of new and uncollected work. His poetry, as Todd Swift notes, "turns the British lyric subtly, and offers new angles on a how a line may be shaped, or allowed to spin off in another direction." "Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "The three qualities I admire in the poetry I like best are: Accuracy, Spontaneity, Mystery". These are the qualities I find in Alan Baker's poems. The precise particulars that create a very real, clear and believable writing, a willingness to take risks, and an awareness that what matters is not to be found in the obvious but in the half glimpsed, half said, half understood" (Lee Harwood)
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Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010 by Alan Baker (2011-03-10)
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Alan Baker
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In the late 1990s he encountered the email discussion group British-poets, which introduced him to the poets associated with the British Revival. He founded Leafe Press in 2000, and is now co-editor (with American poet John Bloomberg-Rissman) and is editor of its associated webzine "Litter". Leafe Press has published work by,among others, Kelvin Corcoran, Carrie Etter, Geraldine Monk, Lee Harwood, and, more recently, work by American, French and Mexican poets, and by the Moroccan Abdellatif Laâbi.
Anthologies Anthology: "The Nottingham Collection", (2005, Five Leaves Press) Anthology: "Gathered Here Today: a celebration of Geraldine Monk at 60".
(2012, Knives, Forks and Spoons Press).
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Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010
(Variations on Painting a Room brings together ten years o...)
- Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010 by Alan Baker (2011-03-10)
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Variations on Painting a Room: Poems 2000-2010
