BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
Hogg The Poems and Drawings
McArthur & Company, 1993
“...I cannot easily find anything like it in Canadian literature except a few poems by Margaret Atwood on love and survival. I would have to turn for comparison, to poems like the English poet Ted Hughes’ sequence on Crow, the Irish poet Tom Kinsella’s Notes from the Land of the Dead or the American poet Galway Kinnell’s Book of Nightmares.” - John Montague
“Callaghan has got a distinct voice, an unerring intuitive feel. He’s got a sort of muscular ‘music’ – an incantation that always means more than it says.” - Joyce Carol Oates
