John Barnie Boeken

Focusing on cultural issues of the 21st century, this collection of essays critiques how capitalism, technology, politics, and religion manipulate humanity. From an atheist and liberal perspective, it analyzes biblical texts and challenges the impact of literalists and creationists. The essays also reject political expediency, cultural imperialism, globalization, and "junk culture," advocating for a more altruistic and sound society. This ambitious work offers a thought-provoking examination of contemporary societal dynamics.

Forty-four wild flowers. Forty-four poems, each one as delicate and enduring as the plants themselves. Poet John Barnie introduces us to the beauty of Wales's many species of wild flower. Along with their English, Welsh and Latin names, he has also included his own photographs of each flower, so that we too can put a face to the name.

Another outstanding collection from John Barnie, shining an uncomfortable light onto issues of ecological degradation, mass extinction and mortality.

Departure Lounge returns to the theme of mortality with characteristic insight and honesty. Concerned not only with how we characterise and cope with death, but with a sense of urgency for all that is being lost, culturally or ecologically, this is deeply intelligent collection. Accessible, yet exacting; lyrical, but without a wasted word, these poems unspool in single, unassailable sentences that ring with truth. 'Approach to the Dark Gates' I am trying not to think of how it will be when history yawns in the library, turning a page, and a fly buzzes at the window through a long afternoon; about humanity there's little to say, 'they were here, they stayed a while, their eyes travelled through space to the stars'. Praise for John Barnie's Previous WorkWind Playing with a Man's Hat Barnie's poems occur as flashes, dependent on brief epiphanies, and are powerfully aphoristic. ... John Barnie is an immediately approachable poet who should be recommended to those who normally shy away from verse. But his poems should not be given to children. They will find this writer scary. ... A faithful reader will know what dismays him: ecological diminishment linked with realization that people have no idea what is being lost. Robert Minhinnick, The Roaring Boys: 'Barnie's poetry is hard to dislike, its pace, its riff being easy on the eye and ear, but he doesn't pander to the heart.' Kym Martindale, New Welsh Review

The much anticipated new collection from essayist, poet and blues musician John Barnie.

Tsunami Days is a vital collection of essays for those prepared to engage with its unflinching observations.

Never for the faint-hearted, Dunes of Cwm Rheidol sees John Barnie at the height of his powers, writing poetry that is heart-breaking and true.

Ambitious and prophetic, this new edition of John Barnie's verse novel, Ice, is increasingly urgent as scientist's debate the possible catastrophe that global warming and human intransigence threaten to unleash. Ice asks what it means to be human and how or whether we can retain humanity in the most extreme of circumstances.