Barry Callaghan

This article is about the Canadian author and poet. For the Scottish footballer, see Barry Callaghan (footballer).

Callaghan in 2007.

Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan CM (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. ^[1] He is currently the editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

He won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction for his collection All the Lonely People. ^[2] In 2006 Priscita Uppal edited Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works a volume in the Guernica Editions 'Essential Writers Series' under general editor Joseph Pivato.

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 Meyer)
• Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001 – 2001 (editor)
• Between Trains – 2007
• Beside Still Waters – 2009
• All the Lonely People: Collected Stories - 2018

References

1. "New York State Writers Institute - Barry Callaghan and Hayden Carruth". Archived from the original on August 9, 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
2. "Andrew Battershill, Robin Richardson & Barry Callaghan win 2019 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 16, 2021.

External links

• Barry Callaghan archives at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Libraries, Toronto, Ontario
• Barry Callaghan's bio and list of books ^[usurped]