| Sebastian Barker (b. 1945) is the author of many books of poetry and editor of The London Magazine. An ex-chairman of the Poetry Society, he has been a director of several literary festivals, including the Royal Berkshire Poetry Festival, and has held various writer-in-residence positions; he is the recipient of awards from the Arts Council, the Society of Authors and the Royal Literary Fund. The Dream of Intelligence was named as a Book of the Year in both The Independent and The Spectator, and his most recent book, The Erotics of God, was The Tablet's Book of the Year in 2005. His career includes stints as a furniture restorer, carpenter, fireman and cataloguer at Sotheby's, and is perhaps best summed up by his autobiographical poem 'Curriculum Vitae'.
1. Tilty Mill 0.36
2. The Green Aphis 0.45
3. The War of Watch and Pen 1.14
4. Bluebells 3.05
5. Shockwaves 0.30
6 The Walled Garden 3.30
7. On the Rocks 3.39
8. Before the Time of the Sundial 1, 3, 4, 8 4.16
9. The Hand in the Well 0.58
10. Go, Gracious Words 1.07
11. People 0.19
12. Poetry 0.12
13. Justice 0.13
14. The Light on the River 0.18
15. In the Cradle of the Poets 1.02
16. Visitation in the Mountains 0.52
17. Daughter 0.37
18. Spring Day near Reepham 0.34
19. A Sealed Box for Xanthi 2.00
20. Strike the Lovely Dumb 0.59
21. Undone by Love 0.58
22. Drinking Song 0.41
23. A Love Song to Eros 1.03
24. Being Here 1.03
25. The Sage of the Cambrian Mountains 1.03
26. The Dancing Crocodile 1.15
27. Curriculum Vitae 2.36
28. Katie 0.52
29. A Book 0.56
30. Young Woman Dancing 0.23
31. A Small Ballet of Light 0.23
32. The Lilies of the Field 0.24
33. Sex 1.05
34. Take hands. The moon 0.42
35. On the Anvil of the Tongue 0.57
36. The Visitors 1.27
37. Tell of the Sad Derangement of the Mind 2.14
38. Athenagoras 1.59
39. Holy The Heart On Which We Hang Our Hope 1.10
40. In the Valley of the Moselle 1.17
41. The Rites Mysterious 0.53
42. The Uncut Stone 2.03
43. The Conscience of the Real 0.38
44. Walk with Me 0.47
45. The Fluting Trumpeter 0.48
46. The Elderberry Tree 0.48
47. The Articles of Prayer 0.48
48. Rosaceous Wonders 1.00
49. The Stranger in the Pass 0.56
50. For Eddie Linden on his 70th Birthday 1.15
51. For Glyn Hughes on his 70th Birthday 1.30
52. Spirit Of The River 0.49
Total length of the recording 61.52
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