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'''Barry Cole''' (born 1936, Balham, [[South London]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] poet. | '''Barry Cole''' (born 1936, Balham, [[South London]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] poet. | ||
| − | Apart from two years (1970-1972) as Northern Arts Fellow in Literature at the universities | + | 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 daughters and four grandchildren, he has lived with his wife Rita 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]] | ||
Revision as of 22:34, February 27, 2017
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. 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 daughters and four grandchildren, he has lived with his wife Rita for the past forty-seven years near Sadler's Wells Theatre, Islington.