Barney Ashton-Bullock is the poet in the hybrid music/poetry/pop projects ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ and the ‘Downes Braide Association’ and is widely published in cult poetry journals Travesties, Queerlings, Ice Floe, Poetry Bus, the ‘Avalanches In Poetry’ Leonard Cohen tribute anthologies, various themed Dreich pamphlets, Pilot Press’s ‘Queer Anthology Of Healing’ and Broken Sleep’s Aphex Twin and Masculinity anthologies. Recent pamphlets and collections include ‘Café Kaput!’ (Broken Sleep, 2020), ‘F**kpig Zeitgeist!’ and ‘Bucolicism’ (both Cherry Red, 2021), ’Geopoliticus, Pupsy!’ (Red Ceilings Press, 2022), ’Cul-de-Sacrilege!’ (Polari Press, 2022), ‘Beau, Beau Sadisto!’ (Back Room Poetry, 2023) and ‘Fukkin Angry Centrist!’ (Back Room Poetry, 2024). 

Barney also has a career as a documentary film archivist and as a consultant on expanded album re-issue projects for both London Records and Cherry Red Records. He has been project consultant on both the 40th Anniversary re-issues of Bronski Beat’s ‘The Age Of Consent’ album and the poetry element of the ‘Smalltown Boy’ art exhibition (SWG3, Glasgow) and forthcoming book.