Barry Cole (born 13 Nov 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.