Publications

Poetry by Andrew Barnes has appeared in the following places:

 

Magazines and websites

Nutshell, Momentum, People to People, Heart Throb, Raw edge, Kumquat, Lunar poetry (3 & 8), Purple Patch, The Firing Squad, The Recusant, Ledbury poetry website (lockdown poems), Dark Poets club, The Cannon's Mouth (39 & 84), Orbis #207 & #215, Pushing out the boat #18, Obsessed with Pipework (111), Poetry Salzburg issue 43, Cerasus magazine #5, The Fig Tree issue 14, London Grip webzine issue #60, The Dawntreader issue 75, Sideways poetry magazine issue 12

 

Anthologies

Guardians of the State (Poetry Now)

Please listen to what I'm not saying (Fly on the wall press)

Wingset (Elaine Christie / Restless Bones)

Solihull Sonnets (Solihull libraries)

 

Performance

Brave new words- Barlow Theatre

Purple Patch poetry conventions - Barlow theatre

Poetry Bites- MAC and Kitchen Garden cafe

Black Country Museum

Happy Heart cafe, Olton

Solihull writers open mic- The Core

Rhubarb radio

Radio Wildfire

Hope radio

BBC Sounds / BBC Radio West Midlands

Verve open mic night- the Hive Jewellery quarter

 

Competitions

Birmingham City Council/ Urban Fusion Eastside Light festival Haiku competition (July 2006) Adult winner

Poetry Bites writing competition 2020- Highly commended

Solihull writers Paul Torr poetry competition 2026- 1st place winner