Barry Cole
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Barry Cole (born 1936, Balham, South London) is a British poet.
Apart from two years (1970-1972) as Northern Arts Fellow in Literature at the universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and two years (1955-1957) in the RAF as a National Serviceman, he worked until 1995 as an editor at the Central Office of Information, and is now a freelance editor and writer. He has published seven collections of poems and four novels.[1] His poems appear in more than a dozen anthologies, including Philip Larkin's The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse and British Poetry since 1945.
Married, with three grown-up daughters, and four grandchildren, he and his wife Rita have lived for the past forty-seven years near Sadler's Wells Theatre, Islington.
[edit] Books
- Inside Outside: New and Selected Poems Shoestring Press, 1997, ISBN 1-899-549-11-0.
[edit] Notes
- ^ see author's biographical note on back cover of Inside Outside (1997)
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