​Barrie Cole
Writer | Poet | Playwright

Now Available From
​Finishing Line Press:

Lacquer Is a
​Thrilling Word
​
Poems and Short Works
by Barrie Cole

"To enter the pages of Lacquer is a Thrilling Word is to walk inside the wild and wonderful, kaleidoscopically shape-shifting mind of Barrie Cole..." - Alison Luterman​​

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Latest Review: "Lacquer is a Thrilling Word is inventive, generous and entirely unafraid of seeming peculiar. It asks readers to reconsider the objects and words they have stopped noticing and to recognize imagination as a genuine means of survival. This will especially appeal to readers who enjoy prose poetry, hybrid forms, surreal humor and writing that can move from silliness to sorrow within a single breath. Barrie Cole’s world is eccentric, vulnerable and remarkably alive, and spending time inside it makes the familiar world outside the book feel a little more enchanted."

​-Heena R. Pardeshi, The Reading Bud