An interview with Barry Callaghan by Todd H. C. Fischer, 1999

Very few Canadian poets receive the recognition they deserve. This is a sad and sorry trend which may, hopefully, be coming to an end. Big chain bookstores are beginning to include large sections devoted to poetry, and older books by Canadian poets are being reissued. One poet who is seeing such a resurrection is Barry Callaghan, author of [insert bibliography]. Callaghan is perhaps best known for his series of Hogg poems and paintings, which McArthur and Company have reissued as Hogg: The Poems and Drawings. Recently, I had the pleasure to talk to Barry Callaghan at York University—where he teaches English—to discuss Hogg.
( You don’t build churches if you don’t have a big cock. )