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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 [[Royal Air Force|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. 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]].

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 [[Royal Air Force|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. 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]].

Married with three grown daughters and four grandchildren, he has lived with his wife Rita for the past forty-seven years near [[Sadler's Wells Theatre]], [[Islington]].

[[Category:Poets|Cole, Barry]]

[[Category:Poets|Cole, Barry]]