Barry Cole

Barry Cole (13 November 1936 – 26 June 2014) was a British poet.^[1]

Biography

Cole was born in Woking, Surrey, and was educated at Balham Secondary School in London. He did military service in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957.^[2] His subsequent career included 1958 employment with Reuters news agency in London, working as a reporter (1965–70), as a senior editor (1974–94) at the Central Office of Information, London.^[2] He was Northern Arts Fellow at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham University (1970–72).^[3] He published several collections of poems and four novels.^[2][4] His 1968 poetry collectiion, Moonsearch, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation.^[5]

In 1959, he married Rita Linihan^[3] and they had three daughters, Celia, Rebecca, and Jessica.^[5] He was a close friend of the writer Bryan Johnson, whose 1973 suicide had a traumatic effect on Cole.^[3]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Blood Ties (Turret Books, 1967)
• Moonsearch (1968)
• Ulysses in the Town of Coloured Glass (London, Turret, 1968)
• The Visitors (1970)
• Vanessa in the City (Trigram Press, 1971)
• Pathetic Fallacies (London, Eyre Methuen, 1973)
• The Rehousing of Scaffardi (Richmond, Surrey: Keepsake Press, 1976)
• Dedications (Byron Press: 1977)
• Inside Outside: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring Press, 1997, ISBN 1-899549-11-0)
• Ghosts Are People Too (2003)
• Broken Sonnets (2008)

Novels

• A Run Across the Island (1968)
• Joseph Winter's Patronage (1969)
• In Search Of Rita (Methuen, 1970)
• The Giver (Methuen, 1971)

References

External links

• John Lucas, "Other lives: Barry Cole obituary", The Guardian, 15 July 2014.