CRUSTLESS

If milady,

limbering bread,

scrapes dough-knuckles

over teenybopper's acne-exquisite cheeks

he'll n

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T.S. Elliot didn't.

By Christopher Barnes

In 1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 2000 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology 'Titles Are Bitches'. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a reading of poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and partook in workshops2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.