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John Barton is a Canadian poet born in 1957 in Edmonton, Canada. He is 63 years old. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 160 pounds. John Barton has been married twice. His first marriage was to poet and novelist Susan Musgrave in 1979. They had two children together before divorcing in 1989. His second marriage was to poet and novelist Lorna Crozier in 1991. They have two children together. John Barton has published several collections of poetry, including The Hogg Poems (1985), The Book of Silences (1991), and The Quotations of Bone (1996). He has also written several plays, including The Secret Mask (1989) and The Last Supper (1992). John Barton has won numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1985 and the Pat Lowther Award in 1991. He has also been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Trillium Book Award in 2004. John Barton's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his successful career as a poet and playwright.

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2019

He and Billeh Nickerson co-edited the anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets, published in 2007 by Arsenal Pulp Press. In 2012 his Selected Poems were published by Nightwood.

1990

Barton was co-editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 1990 to 2003. He edits The Malahat Review and was poetry editor for Winnipeg's Signature Editions from 2006 5 to 2008. He co-founded the Poem of the Year Contest in 1996. He was writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library from September 2008 to May 2008. During the 2010/11 academic year, he was writer-in-residence at University of New Brunswick and in the fall 2015 term, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Additionally he worked as a librarian and editor for five museums in Ottawa between 1986 and 2003. He has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since 2004.

1986

He originally wanted to study architecture but did poorly in calculus and was enrolled in English courses in the Faculté Saint-Jean at the University of Alberta. He became a poet upon realization that there were fewer factors affecting his ability to excel in his chosen vocation. In 1986, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with a Master of Library and Information Science. Also, Barton studied Book Editing at the Banff Publishing Centre in 1994.

1980

Since 1980 his poems have appeared in seventy-five magazines and thirty anthologies in North America, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.

1957

Barton was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1957 but was raised in Calgary.