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Bruno Cooke

 is The Friday Poem’s Spoken Word Poetry Editor. He is a postgraduate student studying global journalism with research interests in the intersection of the media, storytelling, culture and politics. His articles have appeared in Groundviews, The Focus and Forge Press, and you can read most of them on Medium. Bruno Cooke’s website is at onurbicycle.com. He has written four plays and one novel, Reveries, and currently lives in Sheffield with his partner and their cat Kylo Rennington Spa (the Purred).

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    Do girls not have fangs?

    Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty Press, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig
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    Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into

    Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews C+nto: & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Saqi Books, 2021)
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    Slug snog

    Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews Slug by Hollie McNish (Little, Brown, 2021)
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    ‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’

    Profile: Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest
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    I don’t think Death has used a PlayStation before

    Book Review: Bruno Cooke reviews Hit Points — an anthology of video game poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh (Broken Sleep Books, 2021)
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    By golly, I’ve got it

    Essay: Bruno Cooke explores how the poetry of the 1918 Spanish flu compares with the poetry of the present Covid-19 pandemic
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    You who found your dream but could not spell it

    Profile: Bruno Cooke meets Spoken Word poet Joelle Taylor and discusses activism, education and the power of poetry
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