No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

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• John Barton:

  Reading should be a repeat performance.

• John Barton:

  You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

• John Barton:

  Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

• John Barton:

  Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unawa

• John Barton:

  Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique proce

• John Barton:

  In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

• John Barton:

  If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

• John Barton:

  The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various ele

• John Barton:

  I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years aft

• John Barton:

  I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group t