The Launch of Barry Callaghan’s new book
RAISE YOU TEN
Images from the Evening
attendance of 91
Barry Callaghan - pleased and contented
Writer and Actress Zoë Garnett with Screen Writer-Producer David Sobelman
Justice of the Peace John Henry Jackson, Realtor Anita Rapp, Writer Austin Clarke, Writer-Publisher Antonio D’Alfonso with partner Elizabeth
Publisher Kim McArthur, Book Designer Michael Callaghan, Publicist Janet Harron
Kim McArthur, Barry Callaghan, journalist Ron Haggart
David Sobelman, Photographer Nigel Dickson, Writer-Professor Bruce Meyer
Artist Gabriela Campos with Les Petriw
Barry Callaghan with Entrepeneur and Arts Supporter George Yemec, and Photographer John Reeves
Lawyer and Rare Book Collector Ron Dzienbicki and Screen Writer Marlene Perry
Writer Colin Carberry gets his book signed
Barbara ?? with long-time partner Writer-Broadcaster Larry Zolf
Wanda Nowakowska of Madison Press with partner Writer Christopher Adamson
Teacher Renay Weissman with partner Gregg Stanners, Actress and Film Producer Andrea Mann Daniels with mother Artist Claire Weissman Wilks
and Entrepeneur Mark Daniels, Louise D’Abbe and Videographer Eric Weissman
Architect and Jazz Musician Harvey Cowan
Barry Callaghan and long-time partner Claire Weissman Wilks
relax at the end of a wonderful evening.
RAISE YOU TEN
For
Ron Haggart
journalist
and
William Kennedy
who, as a reporter, never forgot
that journalism is storytelling,
and as a storyteller, never forgot
that he was a reporter
As a man of letters, as a poet, novelist, and personal journalist, Barry Callaghan is a singular presence in Canada. Always a storyteller, a faneur "secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure," he is also a public scholar in the tradition of Edmund Wilson (his extraordinary portrait of Wilson concludes this volume).
Unflinching before the harsh complexities of our time, Raise You Tenis, as said by the Globe and Mail: "Literary criticism and cultural history of a high order, in turn joyous, acerbic, celebratory."
Novelist, poet and publisher Barry Callaghan is also one of Canada’s great journalists. He has received every major award that the country’s journalists can offer - more than a dozen National Magazine awards, seven of them gold - and in the United States he has been given the White Award in New York, the Lowell Thomas Award and the Pushcart Prize. He was awarded the inaugural W.O. Mitchell Award in 1998. His works include Hogg: The Poems and Drawing; The Black Queen Stories; When Things Get Worst; A Kiss is Still a Kiss, the memoir Barrelhouse Kings, and his first volume of collected non-fiction Raise You Five (2005).
"...piercing lucidity, uncompromising intelligence, a depth and intensity of feeling perhaps best denoted by Lorca's term duende ... the gift of great criticism." - Globe and Mail
"...a fellow with big appetites for food, drink, experience and storytelling, a kind of pugnacious saint." - George Fetherling
"Along with Atwood and Richler, one of Canada’s pre-eminent persons of letters." - Quill and Quire
"Callaghan is a man for all genres - poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and translation. An honest gambler, he admits to a fondness for cards and horses: poker face, bluff, trump shot and gallop keep his prose varied and interesting at every turn." - Books in Canada
BOOKS BY BARRY CALLAGHAN Fiction
A Kiss Is Still a Kiss: Stories
When Things Get Worst: A Novel
The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings: A Novel
The Black Queen Stories Non-fiction
Raise You Ten: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004, Volume Two
Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004, Volume One Poetry
Hogg, the Seven Last Words
Hogg, the Poems and Drawings
Stone Blind Love
As Close as We Came
The Hogg Poems and Drawings Memoir
Barrelhouse Kings: A Memoir Translations of Books
Wells of Light: Selected Poems of Fernand Ouellette
Flowers of Ice: Selected Poems of Imants Ziedonis
Fragile Moments Jacques Brault
A Voice Locked in Stone Miodrag Pavlovic
Singing at the Whirlpool Miodrag Pavlovic
Eidolon Robert Marteau
Interlude Robert Marteau
Treatise on White and Tincture Robert Marteau
Atlante Robert Marteau
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