Ken Bolton

Ken Bolton (born 1949) is an Australian poet and art critic.

Life
Bolton was born in Sydney and studied fine arts at the University of Sydney, where he also tutored. In the late 70s he edited the poetry magazine Magic Sam and began the small press Sea Cruise Books with Anna Couani. His first book of poems, Four Poems, was published in 1977. In 1982 he moved to Adelaide to work at the Experimental Art Foundation.

He has since edited the literary magazine Otis Rush and collaborated with poet John Jenkins on a number of books of poetry. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1992 and he edited Brandl & Schlesinger's Homage to John Forbes. His criticism has appeared in Photofile, Art and Text, Art Monthly and Art & Australia among other periodicals; and Wakefield Press has published his monograph on the contemporary sculptor Michelle Nikou.

Writing
His 2006 collection At The Flash & At The Baci has been described as "prov[ing] to us that Ken Bolton is a prime example of a poet breaking new ground in Australian poetry."

Poetry

 * Four Poems. (Sea Cruise, 1977)
 * Blonde & French. (Island, 1978) ISBN 0909771189
 * Talking to You: Poems 1978-1981. (Rigmarole, 1983) ISBN 0090922252
 * Blazing Shoes. (Open Dammit, 1984) ISBN 0959115900
 * Airborne dogs, With John Jenkins. (Brunswick Hills, 1988) ISBN 0959092935
 * The Ferrara Poems, With John Jenkins. (Experimental Art Foundation, 1989) ISBN 0949836214
 * Two poems. (Experimental Art Foundation, 1990) ISBN 0949836265
 * Selected Poems. (Penguin, 1992) ISBN 0140586881
 * Untimely Meditations & Other Poems. (Wakefield, 1997) ISBN 1862544328
 * At The Flash & At The Baci. (Wakefield, 2006) ISBN 1862546924
 * The Circus. (Wakefield, 2006)

Non-fiction

 * Michelle Nikou. (Wakefield, 2005) ISBN 1862546762
 * Art Writing: Art in Adelaide in the 1990s and 2000s. (CACSA, 2009)ISBN 9781875751341