BEN BARTON INTERVIEW TALKS ABOUT UPCOMING BOOK

Ben Barton has recently spoken about The Hospital in an interview with Gloom Cupboard editor Richard Wink:


Q) You are releasing a book titled ‘The Hospital’ this year chronicling your experiences on a NHS ward. I’m interested to know more about this and whether putting together this book was more difficult than other collections you have previously had published?

BB) It’s the most personal book I’ve written. It began when I was in hospital, back in 2002. I’d broken my legs so was bedridden, and tanked-up on intravenous morphine. So I just hallucinated and sweated for weeks, scribbling this mad account of what was happening on scraps of paper. The book is basically my diary of my time ‘inside’. The lack of soul in the place nearly killed me. And I saw some horrible things, so of course it’s been difficult – I guess that’s why it’s taken me six years to put it out there.


To read the full interview, visit Gloom Cupboard online

READ EXTRACT FROM THE HOSPITAL ONLINE

Poems From The Hospital, an online chapbook featuring 14 of the Hospital poems, is now available to read at the Open Wide Magazine website

From the editor, James Quinton:

"We have just added a new online chapbook ‘Poems from the Hospital’ by Ben Barton. Ben is a major talent and we’re thrilled to have his work on the site."

OPEN WIDE MAGAZINE TO PREVIEW 'THE HOSPITAL'

Britain's best independent arts magazine Open Wide will soon be previewing a selection of The Hospital poems in an 'online chapbook'

PREVIEW OF THE HOSPITAL POEMS

A poem from The Hospital has been published in Concrete Meat Sheet #8.

Another poem will be featured in the second print edition of Gloom Cupboard, published by the erbacce press.

THE HOSPITAL COVER DESIGNS

Here's a sneaky peek at some of the cover designs for The Hospital book... still a work in progress.

They are linocuts are by the ridiculously talented Mr V – see the link to his 'Illustration Emporium' on the right…

ROUNDEYE'S FIRST BOOK COMING VERY SOON

The first book from Roundeye Books will be The Hospital by Ben Barton

See www.benbarton.co.uk