Prof Peter Barry

Prof Peter Barry

Emeritus Professor

Department of English & Creative Writing

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Profile

Professor Peter Barry has been at Aberystwyth University in Wales since 1995 and is now Emeritus Professor of English. He edited English (the journal of the English Association), for twenty years, and remains an active member of the Aberystwyth Poetry Workshop. Over the past few years he has published poems in Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, and Stand, and a sequence of twelve poems about life at Upholland in the anthology Kaleidoscope from Cinnamon Press.

His best-known book is Beginning Theory which has sold over 300,000 copies and has been translated into Korean, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese (plus at least two pirated editions).

For further information, see [Peter's personal website](http://peter-barry.weebly.com/ "Peter Barry's Website").

Publications

Barry, PT 2013, Just Looking. in Z Skoulding & I Davidson (eds), Placing Poetry. Brill, pp. 17 - 40.
Barry, P 2013, Mapping the geographies of hurt in Barry MacSweeney and S. J. Litherland. in N Alexander & D Cooper (eds), Poetry and Geography: Space and Place in Post-War Poetry. Poetry &, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 33-48.
Barry, P 2013, Reading Poetry. Manchester University Press, Manchester.
Barry, P 2011, London in Poetry Since 1900. in L Manley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London. Cambridge Companions to Literature, Cambridge University Press, pp. 180-200.
Barry, P 2011, Writers as Readers, Readers as Writers: 'Focal-Plane' Activities in Creative Writing Practice. in RM Turley (ed.), The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions. Boydell & Brewer, pp. 71-91.
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