John Barnie

John Barnie is a poet and essayist from Abergavenny, Gwent. John was the editor of Planet, The Welsh Internationalist from 1990-2006. His collections of essays, The King of Ashes, won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1990. His collection Trouble in Heaven was on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. His most recent collections are Sunglasses (Cinnamon Press), Afterlives (Leaf by Leaf) and the forthcoming Dunes of Cwm Rheidol (Cinnamon Press)..

John Barnie is a poet and essayist from Abergavenny, Gwent. John was the editor of Planet, The Welsh Internationalist from 1990-2006. His collections of essays, The King of Ashes, won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1990. His collection Trouble in Heaven was on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. His most recent collections are Sunglasses (Cinnamon Press), Afterlives (Leaf by Leaf) and the forthcoming Dunes of Cwm Rheidol (Cinnamon Press).. See less