David Cooke
David Cooke is an exceptional British poet, and winner of the Gregory Award, who has been quiet for a while - for 20 years, in fact.
His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including Acumen, Bete Noire, Ciphers,Coffee House Poetry, Envoi, The French Literary Review, The Frogmore Papers, Hibernia, The Honest Ulsterman, The Interpreter’s House, The Irish Press (New Irish Writing), The North, Poetry London, The Reader, The SHOp, Stand, Staple, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Poetry Ireland Review.
His first and last published collection was 'Bruegel's Dancers' back in 1984. Night Publishing is proud to present his latest work .......
His poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, including Acumen, Bete Noire, Ciphers,Coffee House Poetry, Envoi, The French Literary Review, The Frogmore Papers, Hibernia, The Honest Ulsterman, The Interpreter’s House, The Irish Press (New Irish Writing), The North, Poetry London, The Reader, The SHOp, Stand, Staple, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Poetry Ireland Review.
His first and last published collection was 'Bruegel's Dancers' back in 1984. Night Publishing is proud to present his latest work .......
In the Distance
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‘The ghosts of a West of Ireland family haunt these poems, but Cooke is not treading ground already made familiar by others. Growing up in England, he is a poet whose ‘making strange’ grows naturally out of his exile between two countries. The limewashed pieties of rural Ireland are here, but in a wider context of European culture and history. After a long silence, David Cooke has burst back into life, in a welcome and gifted performance.’
(William Bedford)
‘Along with his understanding of the poem as a made thing, Cooke exhibits a flair for investing the ordinary with new significance. Experimental in the best sense, technically impressive, rooted in the actuality of everyday experience, David Cooke's poetry is immediate, memorable and impressive.'
(Ian Parks)
‘These beautifully honed and memorable poems are real finds. Wide-ranging in themes and form, they attest to a natural and extremely gifted poet.’
(Patricia McCarthy)
'David Cooke's In the Distance evokes diverse historical places or persons. Hauntingly and beautifully, he also reveals something more that can't be set in time and space.'
(Paul Sutherland)
‘Like bulbs kept a long winter under the stairs, David Cooke’s poems are grounded in experience and grow on an integral rhythmic pulse. His poetry will amply reward the hearing it deserves.'
(Peter Robinson)
Available from Kindle - here
Available from Smashwords - here
‘The ghosts of a West of Ireland family haunt these poems, but Cooke is not treading ground already made familiar by others. Growing up in England, he is a poet whose ‘making strange’ grows naturally out of his exile between two countries. The limewashed pieties of rural Ireland are here, but in a wider context of European culture and history. After a long silence, David Cooke has burst back into life, in a welcome and gifted performance.’
(William Bedford)
‘Along with his understanding of the poem as a made thing, Cooke exhibits a flair for investing the ordinary with new significance. Experimental in the best sense, technically impressive, rooted in the actuality of everyday experience, David Cooke's poetry is immediate, memorable and impressive.'
(Ian Parks)
‘These beautifully honed and memorable poems are real finds. Wide-ranging in themes and form, they attest to a natural and extremely gifted poet.’
(Patricia McCarthy)
'David Cooke's In the Distance evokes diverse historical places or persons. Hauntingly and beautifully, he also reveals something more that can't be set in time and space.'
(Paul Sutherland)
‘Like bulbs kept a long winter under the stairs, David Cooke’s poems are grounded in experience and grow on an integral rhythmic pulse. His poetry will amply reward the hearing it deserves.'
(Peter Robinson)
