Barry Cole

Barry Cole (born 13 November 1936) is an English poet.

Life
Cole was born in, Balham, South London.

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. He 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.

Publications

 * Inside Outside: New and Selected Poems Shoestring Press, 1997, ISBN 1-899549-11-0.