Victor Barker
Profile
- Name
- Victor Barker
- Joined
- Oct 2007
Victor Barker is an internationally published writer and speaker on creative writing.
Also interested in visual and musical arts.
He has travelled a lot and is interested in the esoteric search, jazz, literary fiction and life in general.
Victor Barker, Novelist and Poet
Groups
Victor Barker is a member of Flash Fiction and In the Moment.
Journal Entries
Look out journal here I come!
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Art
Writings
THE MANATEE a novel
Percival says he / used to stand on the / shingle, looking across to / the island, watching the / Americans clubbing the / mermaids to death. He / was a schoolboy then / and that is how he / r…
THE TRUTH OF EVERYTHING - a novel
SOPHIA’S TOWN / We don’t live in Sophiatown, we are Sophiatown. We dance, we whistle, we get drunk, we make love. Sometimes we kill each other — Bloke Modisane, South Africa, 1957. Th…
KRATE - THE FOOL a novel
Krate’s Prologue / Thank you. You have opened the book, and started to read. I would have been lost without you. But we must be careful that we don’t deconstruct you, as I seem to have deconstruct…
THE TANGIER SCRIPT - a novel
slowly the spit dangled down from the lips until it blobbed onto his own lips and he put out his tongue and licked the spit into his mouth and it tasted of flavours he had no names for.
BAUDIN'S LAST BREATH a novel
NEVER MARRY A SAILOR! Never marry a sailor. A sailor already has a bride. She’ll seep into any marriage and leach away the love. I think my first wife sensed this, deep in the ocean of her in…
Paris Studio an anthology
PARIS STUDIO Halstead Press 2001 / / Victor Barker editor and contributor. / / In 1998 I was awarded a six month / residency in the Keesing Studio in the / Cité International…
