Barry Wilson
Barry studied modern languages at Teddy Hall and has recently completed a PhD at Lancaster University titled ‘Eternal Utopias of the Mind and the Objective Correlative; a Poetic Exploration’.
His poems have been widely published in UK and international journals. His poetry sequence ‘Lepus’ was published in 2019 and his debut collection ‘Animal Hours’ was published in 2026.
Review of Animal Hours, Paul Farley
‘This work carries real excitement and charge. Whether watching telly en plein air or inhabiting a power cut, it navigates huge shifts of scale, slips of time, dissolves and distances that are thrillingly opened or closed. It’s a terrific debut.’
Review of Animal Hours, Jane Draycott
‘Barry Wilson is a poet of wonderfully searching and finely-tuned lyricism. In Animal Hours he lays out a vivid mosaic of locations and encounters that movingly explore the wonder and fragility of the individual psyche. There’s not a poem here that doesn’t contain some quietly thrilling moment of transformative imagining. A collection of real distinction.’
