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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Barry MacSweeney
		Barry MacSweeney, poet, was born in 1948 in Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Rutherford Grammar School.
		As a poet, MacSweeney commenced writing early and, as a consequence of maturing in Newcastle during the 1960’s was influenced by the vigour of the poetry scene at that time.
		MacSweeney was both contributor and participant at these readings and, following from his organising a poetry event in the Summer of 1967, his first book of poems The Boy from the Green Cabaret Tells of his Mother was published by Hutchinsons in 1968 under the New Authors series.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Barry-MacSweeney (245 words)

	Nicholas Johnson, 'Barry MacSweeney - An Appreciation'
		The poet Barry MacSweeney was a contrary, lone wolf, self styled the 'prince of Sparty Lea'.
		MacSweeney was a boy wonder, in the Romantic tradition, who turned lyricism on its head and made it a very dark place to be.
		Barry MacSweeney's poetry was a sulphur, fusing the political and the personal: scathing and contemptuous of the destruction of the North East's labour force, the shipyards and coalmines.
	www.pores.bbk.ac.uk /1/Nicholas%20Johnson,%20%20'Barry%20MacSweeney%20-%20An%20Appreciation'.htm (1366 words)

	legends10
		Barry's retreat into alcoholism is a variant on this, which represents a permanent crisis for idealist politics and for the poetic movement which was so thirled to that politics.
		Barry was a union activist (met her at an NUJ weekend conference, I think), used to cover Newcastle City Hall for his paper, and is not stupid about politics.
		MacSweeney's poetry includes his whole life, it has a vast, immersing depth, it is as complex as reality; but the penalty for building a world-game which is not little, uninvolving, and artificial, is that it can be compared with reality and lose.
	www.pinko.org /99.html (2845 words)

	Message in a bottle \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		MacSweeney wrote the cover copy for his last book himself: "Barry MacSweeney wrote his first poem at the age of seven and has been an alcoholic since he was 16.
		MacSweeney had been in and out of hospitals and detox clinics for more than a year when, visiting him at his semi in Newcastle in June 1995, Litherland was witness to a catastrophic event.
		MacSweeney suffered a fit or convulsion in the course of which his head swelled terrifyingly and he vomited fl foam and gouts of fl blood.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/poetry/story/0,6000,326970,00.html (2662 words)

	Literary Studies - English Literature, Language and Linguistics - Newcastle University
		Permission to make published use of any material from The Barry MacSweeney Papers must be sought in writing from the Special Collections Librarian (email: lib-specenq@ncl.ac.uk) and from the copyright owner.
		Barry MacSweeney’s brother, Paul McSweeney, can be contacted at the following email address and is happy to answer further enquires: paul-mcsweeney@hotmail.co.uk.
		The MacSweeney Library is also an excellent resource for the thriving creative writing and postgraduate communities in the School of English at Newcastle.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /elll/research/literature/macsweeney/index.htm (1533 words)

	The Richmond Review, Book Review, The Book of Demons by Barry MacSweeney
		is announced with a tough and darkly challenging note: "Barry MacSweeney wrote his first poem at the age of seven -- 42 years ago -- and has heen an alcoholic since he was 16.
		Two years ago his solitary hard drinking almost killed him, and after a series of life-threatening fits and convulsions which ended with him on a life-support machine, he underwent rehabilitation through detoxification in several hospitals and in an addiction clinic.
		MacSweeney moves the point of utterance fluidly back and forth between 'Barry' and Pearl, forming a duet of poet and mute, each adoring the other's sounds and silences:
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /books/macsween.html (740 words)

	Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000 by Barry MacSweeney \| PopMatters Book Review
		MacSweeney died in 2000, leaving a body of poems representing a major undercurrent in post-war English poetry.
		MacSweeney's 'Pearl' ("I am Pearl, queen of the dale") confirms his credentials as a belated Romantic, mining the resources of the language to their full potential and mixing medieval anachronisms like the three-stressed alliterative line with post-modern pop-culture slang in jarring, dazzling poetry:
		MacSweeney's poetry in 'Pearl' is powerful, almost effortless in its ability to match its historical sweep with his characteristic honesty in pointing out the wrongs of the contemporary world -- closer, perhaps, to Piers Plowman than Pearl.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/w/wolf-tongue.shtml (1166 words)

	rhubarb is susan: Barry MacSweeney : 21 / Sonnet written on February 8 1915
		MacSweeney is one of only two now-dead authors I've reviewed on rhubarb (the other being Pope John Paul).
		MacSweeney's overt rhetorical device here is the yoke, the way in which he turns words together, either on the face (joining them petlamb) or in the paratactic rhythms (madness van) that string things together.
		It's a stunning performance, and the way in which MacSweeney can turn, in the final lines, the language of war towards a kind of language of caring, of sexual engagement ("So long stunner") in such a weird, unassuming fashion is one of the great pleasures you can draw from this.
	rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com /2006/03/barry-macsweeney-21-sonnet-written-on.html (604 words)

	svp introduction to Barry MacSweeney
		I do know that Barry MacSweeney is an important poet to us now, challenging us with vibrant poetry over three decades.
		The first thing and the main thing to say of Barry MacSweeney is that he is a major poet.
		He goes on to discuss, briefly, MacSweeney's long lines which, though long, are not prose and will disappoint the many who do not really like poetry.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /svp/intros/svpintbs.html (1017 words)

	Boy From the Green Cabaret Tells of 1ST Edition - Barry Macsweeney
		Barry MacSweeney (July 17, 1948 - May 18, 2000) was an English poet and journalist.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life.
		Barry Magid Charlotte Joko Beck - Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychotherapy - 0861713060
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	www.americanliteratureclassics.com /75192_barry-macsweeney_1117405478boyfromthegreencabarettellsof1steditionhowtowrite.html (367 words)

	Barry MacSweeney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Barry MacSweeney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Barry MacSweeney (July 17, 1948 - May 9, 2000) was an English poet and journalist.
		Barry MacSweeney, Literary Works, Poetry, Prose, Poetry/Artwork, Notes, External links, 1948 births, 2000 deaths, English poets and British Poetry Revival.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Barry_MacSweeney (267 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Review - Voice in the darkness deserves to be heard
		Barry’s areas of concern are present in his earliest work: love as the most extreme emotion; the north of England as a territory opening out to earlier poetries; and Thomas Chatterton, the Romantics’ favourite suicidal teenager, as a personal icon.
		In the Seventies, MacSweeney’s verse is infused with resonant colloquial energy, lines which feel intuitive, unpredictable yet apt, as at the close of ‘Ode to Long Kesh’: "Nouveau Flapless in the garments of rich/hunger, living on potatoes & nitro-glycerine".
		Barry died in 2000 from alcohol-related problems: demons he confronted in his last books with an unblinking responsibility to his art.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /review.cfm?id=759152003 (449 words)

	Poet's day 1997
		Tonight MacSweeney split his performance between "a collection of innocence and experience." His innocence recalled in a poem about his childhood friend Pearl.
		Both grew up in the wilds of the great Allen valley which he described as "Like the Yukon, the biggest lead mining area in the world." From this he switched to the dark days of adulthood in a poem written about his near death two years ago on a life support system.
		From the young Nicholas Johnson, the iconalistic Aidan Dun, the Northumbrian warmth of Barry MacSweeney, the London poems of Ian Sinclair to a rare public performance from David Gascoyne who Dun claimed 'moves in and above this shadowy world.' An apt description of a surrealist if ever I heard one.
	www.iowrock.demon.co.uk /clearspot/gascoyne.html (1842 words)

	Jacket 31 - October 2006 - Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls ...
		One of the revelations of Barry’s book is that he unearths private discussion about the civic responsibility of radical artists, quite rare in the public discourse of those times.
		Barry is acid about the legacy of the central ‘event’ of his ‘history’.
		The problems with the kind of event history model that Barry has adopted — rather than a Bourdieuean reading, say — is that it places a great deal of emphasis on the pivotal event over general social movements.
	www.jacketmagazine.com /31/sheppard-barry.html (3599 words)

	Barry MacSweeney: Hellhound Memos - reviewed by Peter Manson
		MacSweeney is one of those writers whose work becomes richer and more coherent the more of it you read.
		Tics of phrase, character and landscape recur in poems written years apart, with a cumulative effect like the products of an oral-formulaic bard with the dee tees.
		The pamphlet's title is from a song by bluesman Robert Johnson and, like Johnson, MacSweeney's demons are as much inside him as out - he's part of the urban terror (is an urban terror?), knows it and knows the ride won’t stop till he jumps off, taking his place among the suicidal and suicided:
	www.petermanson.com /Macsweeney.htm (347 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Book of Demons: Books: Barry MacSweeney
		Barry MacSweeney's Pearl is a collection of poems based loosely around the medieval text of the same name, in which the poet explores his childhood and remembers his love, Pearl, a girl whose cleft palate makes her dumb and illiterate.
		The second part of the collection, the Book of Demons is a gripping tale of MacSweeney's battle with alcholism (the 'demons'), which he sadly lost earlier this year.
		MacSweeney was a great fan of Blake and these poems retrace Blake's poems of Innocence and Experience.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Book-Demons-Barry-MacSweeney/dp/1852244143 (291 words)

	Jacket 31 - October 2006 - Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls ...
		Barry, eschewing the myths and legends of the tribe, uses documentary evidence to tell the story as straight as he can.
		(Barry p 3; all future references to Barry as page numbers in the text.) But the equally ferocious presence of Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society — he was officially Treasurer at one time — was crucial to nearly all aspects from the printing of magazines to running experimental workshops.
		Barry relies too much on the later polemicising of Eric Mottram, with its self-righteous exilic tone, as though this were authoritative.
	jacketmagazine.com /31/sheppard-barry.html (3599 words)

	A Great Love Tainted By The Bottle (from The Northern Echo) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When I ask about her partner, the late journalist and poet Barry MacSweeney, she is as frank as she can be, but before I broach this difficult subject, we talk of her career.
		Yet Barry's gentlemanly manner masked his addiction, which he was careful not to show.
		Barry was rushed into hospital with Jackie at his side.
	www.thenorthernecho.co.uk /features/echowoman/display.var.938266.0.a_great_love_tainted_by_the_bottle.php (1714 words)

	Honoured treefrogs - Barry MacSweeny
		I value MacSweeney because of Pearl, and some texts in The Book of Demons and other poems which relate to Pearl.
		The struggle to speak, for Pearl; the struggle to articulate a passion, for the poet: this runs through and through.
		Perhaps part of an autheniticy that may be characterised as regional, something which MacSweeney shares with Larkin.
	www.poetropical.co.uk /treefrog/sweeny.htm (445 words)

	Stride Magazine.
		The main reason I can’t get on with MacSweeney’s poetry is that, simply, I find most of it pretty fucking unreadable.
		And I’ve heard him quite soberly discuss it all with a rationality that’s scary as hell.
		It’s just written down in that poetic line that comes from the Americans and into Britain in the 60s and 70s and there’s control and lack of control in pretty much equal measure.
	www.stridemagazine.co.uk /2003/october/stannard.htm (765 words)

	Stöbern bei abebooks.de
		Barry Lopez : Crow And Weasel Binding: H
		Barry M Jones : The Story Of The Panther
		Barry Martin : Ascent To The Summit Of
	www.abebooks.de /docs/Browse/Sitemap/B/Author_TitleSeite154.html (279 words)

	Second Aeon Bibliography
		Body of the magazine contained work from peter Mayer, Brian Wake, Harry Guest, Peter Gruffydd, Gene Fowler, Tina Morris, Alan Bold, Allen Halsey, Iain Sinclair, Barry MacSweeney, dsh, Edwin Morgan, Thomas a Clark, George Dowden, William Wantling, Alan Perry, Peter Porter, Wes Magee, Gary Snyder, Tom Earley, Paul Evans, Marguerite Edmonds and others.
		Features: the small press scene at enormous length, fiction from Alexis Lykiard, Opal L nations, Eric Mottram on the work of Bob Cobbing, Alison Knowles on spoken performance, a letters section, more on Poet's Conference.
		Peter Redgrove, Theodore Weiss, J.P.Ward, Hans Verhagen, William Sherman, John Riley, Barry Edgar Pilcher, John Ormond, Julio Ortega, Blas De Otero, Alan Perry, Tom Pickard, Malcolm Parr and many others.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /peter.finch/biblio.htm (1259 words)

	John Harvey : Biography
		Flesh & Blood received The Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel of 2004 (US)
		He ran Slow Dancer Press from 1977 to 1999, editing Slow Dancer magazine until 1993, and continuing since then to publish the work of both new poets and established writers such as Lee Harwood, Libby Houston and Barry MacSweeney.
		He was the first to publish a collection of Sharon Olds' work in England,and, in 1998, follow edthis up by publishing Lucille Clifton for the first time in Britain in1998.
	www.mellotone.co.uk /biography.html (596 words)

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		TRIBUTES were paid to former Gazette deputy editor, Barry MacSweeney, during his funeral service on Tyneside.
		TRIBUTES TO BARRY TRIBUTES were paidformer Gazette deputy editor, Barry MacSweeney, during his funeral service on Tyneside.
		Barry MacSweeney's journalistic career started as a teenage cub reporter for the Evening Chronicle, followed by stints as both news editor and crime reporter on newspapers throughout the UK.
	www.shieldsgazette.com /ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=1111&articleid=627834 (379 words)

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		TRIBUTES TO BARRY TRIBUTES were paidformer Gazette deputy editor, Barry MacSweeney, during his funeral service on Tyneside.
		30 years, Barry was nominated for the Chair in Poetry at Oxford as a 19-year-old by Hutchinson, the publishers of his first poetry collection, The Boy From the Green Cabaret Tells of His Mother (1968).
		A memorial reading to celebrate Barry's life will be held later this year.
	www.southtynesidetoday.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=1111&articleid=627834 (327 words)

	Barry Pearl (Directory/Actors/B/Barry Pearl) - Wd-Celebrities.com
		Barbara Barry for Wedgwood "Pearl Strand" Dinnerware Collection Nothing is more elegant than a single strand of pearls and no one knows that better than designer Barbara Barry.
		Pearl Izumi (www.pearlizumi.com) is a proud supporter of cyclists Dede Barry, Michael Barry...
		If anyone sees the Max Tour and Barry Pearl is spotted in the cast I would sooooo like to know.
	www.wd-celebrities.com /Actors/B/Barry.Pearl (412 words)

	RTÉ News: Men sentenced over Duggan assault
		A tennis coach and a university student who left a man in a coma after attacking him on Dublin's Grafton Street are to serve three months in prison.
		Stephen Nugent, 24, from Swords and 29-year-old Dermot Cooper from Stillorgan, both in Dublin, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm to Sligo librarian Barry Duggan in April 2003.
		Tom MacSweeney, Marine Correspondent, meets Eamon Conneely, who has risen to be a prominent businessman, and now a keen sailor
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/1108/dugganb.html (246 words)

	Tom Kelly - Barry Patrick MacSweeney, poet, journalist
		If you have anything in which Barry appeared or was reviewed do 'drop me a line', as we used to say and I'll add it to this randomness.
		Barry stumbled into our cosy little office with its gas fire, three desks and papers piled everywhere with our editor, JR Horsley,behind him.
		We had a lot of trainee reporters - it saved on the wage bill much to the delight of the owners - and Barry did for them what he did for me. And the ones he couldn't get through too he left photocopies of PR jobs from Press Gazette on their desks..
	neukol.org.uk /tyneblog/index.php/tomkelly/2006/10/01/barry_patrick_macsweeney_poet_journalist (1298 words)

	Barry MacSweeney Information
		Barry MacSweeney (July 17, 1948 - May 9, 2000) was an English poet and journalist.
		Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life.
		Horses in Boiling Blood: MacSweeney, Apollinaire: a collaboration, a celebration (2003)
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Barry_MacSweeney (210 words)

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