Bruce Barnes moved to Bradford from North London in 1996, became active in Interchange Writers, and Bradford Poetry Workshop, BPW; (BPW now forms part of the Beehive's programme of events).
He has had two collections of poetry published; the lovelife of the absent-minded Phoenix Press 1993 and Somewhere Else Utistugu press 2003, was a winner of the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition in 1998, and has had poems published in various small magazines and anthologies.