This website was inspired by Michael Donaghy and is dedicated to him.
thepoem.co.uk is a non-profit organisation dedicated to furthering contemporary British and Irish poetry. All material on this site is commissioned directly from the poets and publishers themselves, and we do not accept unsolicited work.
Edward Barker was born in 1960 in Rome, the son of poet George Barker and Lavinia Farrelly. A script-writer and poet, Edward is the founder and chief editor of The Poem web site and now lives in London. Visit his personal blog and his Poemanias.