Barry Callaghan
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Canada
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author
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, poet
Poet
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and anthologist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly.
Born in Toronto, Ontario
Ontario
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, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan
Morley Callaghan
Morley Callaghan, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality.-Biography:...
. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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Selected bibliography
- The Hogg Poems and Drawings - 1978
- As Close as We Came - 1982
- The Black Queen Stories - 1982
- The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings - 1989
- Stone Blind Love - 1989
- Canadian Travellers in Italy - 1989 (editor)
- Exile: The First Fifteen Years - 1992 (editor)
- Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French - 1993]
- When Things Get Worse - 1993
- A Kiss is Still a Kiss - 1995
- This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories - 1996 (editor)
- Barrelhouse Kings - 1998
- We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War - 2001 (edited with Bruce MeyerBruce MeyerBruce Meyer is a Canadian poet and educator.He has been the Director of Writing and Literature at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, and has taught at the University of Windsor, McMaster University, Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Seneca College, Humber College,...
) - Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972-2001 - 2001 (editor)
- Between Trains - 2007
- Beside Still Waters - 2009