Sebastian Barker [SEP] educated at
The Tablet"′s Book of the Year in 2005.
Life and career.
The son of poets George Barker and Elizabeth Smart, Sebastian Barker was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, Corpus Christi, Oxford (MA), and at the University of East Anglia (MA).
He was on the executive committee of P.E.N. and was the Chairman of the Poetry Society from 1988 to 1992. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2002 he took over editorship of the
Hilary Davies
Hilary Davies (born 1954) is an English poet, critic and translator.
Davies was born in London to Anglo-Welsh parents, and was educated at Bromley High School and Wadham College, Oxford, where she was among the first intake of women students, graduating in French and German in 1974. She was married to the poet Sebastian Barker (1945-2014).
Davies won an Eric Gregory Award in 1983, and was chairman of the Poetry Society in 1992-93. She taught