Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney

Barry MacSweeney (July 17, 1948 - May 9, 2000) was an English poet and journalist.

Life and work

Barry MacSweeney was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life. He met poet Basil Bunting when they were both working at the "Newcastle Evening Chronicle" in the mid-1960s, and formed part of a local group of poets including Tom Pickard, Jon Silkin and Jeremy Prynne. He taught journalism and tutored in creative writing in the 1970s and worked as voluntary tutor in adult literacy in Newcastle in the late 1980s. Alcoholism, which he struggled with "from the age of sixteen" [Patrick McGuinness, "All the broken dollpeople, "Poetry", 19 December 2003.] and related ill health led to his death in May 2000.

Literary Works

Poetry

*The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of his Mother (1968)
*The Last Bud (1969)
*Joint Effort (1970) [with Pete Bland]
*Flames on the Beach at Varregio (1970)
*Our Mutual Scarlet Boulevard (1971)
*12 Poems and a Letter (1971) [with Elaine Randell]
*Just 22 and I Don't Mind Dyin': The Official Poetical Biography of Jim Morrison, Rock Idol (1971)
*Brother Wolf (1972)
*Fools Gold (1972)
*Five Odes (1972)
*Dance Steps (1972)
*Six Odes (1973)
*Fog Eye (1973)
*Black Torch (1973)
*Far Cliff Babylon (1978)
*Odes (1978)
*Blackbird [Book 2 of Black Torch] (1980)
*Starry Messenger (1980)
*Colonel B (1980)
*Ranter (1985)
*The Tempers of Hazard (1993; pulped same year) [with Thomas A. Clark and Chris Torrance]
*Hellhound Memos (1993)
*Pearl (1995)
*Zero Hero [with "Finnbar's Lament" and "Blackbird"] (1996)
*The Book of Demons (1997)
*Pearl in the Silver Morning (1999)
*Postcards from Hitler (1999)
*Sweet Advocate (1999)
*Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000 (2003)
*Horses in Boiling Blood: MacSweeney, Apollinaire: a collaboration, a celebration (2003)

Prose

*Elegy for January: A Life of Thomas Chatterton (1970)

Poetry and artwork

*Your Father's Plastic Poppy (1969)
*Ode to Coal (1978)

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/research/literature/macsweeney/ The Barry MacSweeney Collection]
* [http://www.sweeneyclan.com/misc/barrymacsweeney.html Short article]


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