punk ballet. Act 1. / there is more to come
Bruno Cooke profiles Bristol-based poet, writer, performer, and slam champion, Vanessa Kisuule
Photograph of Vanessa Kisuule by Jon Aitken
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Strength in symbols – and silence
Bruno Cooke meets Santo Niña, the Filipino poet, journalist and activist who uses poetry and social media to give voice to the voiceless
This is for the poets
Bruno Cooke says the new Forward Prize category for Best Single Poem – Performed shows that the literary establishment is finally starting to take an interest in Spoken Word Poetry
Haunted, haunting, cursed and cursing
Bruno Cooke reviews Farewell Tour by Stefan Mohamed (Verve, 2022)
A good flow is like a fossil / it preserves the time
Bruno Cooke reviews The Lost Chronicle by Polarbear (Bloomsbury, 2022)
The wasp in the fig’s tissue, sharp as a slice of paper
Bruno Cooke reviews Stephen the Phlebotomist by Nadia Lines (Nine Pens, 2022)
Your death opens gates to the dark world
Bruno Cooke reviews Orlam by PJ Harvey (Picador, 2022)
Sky blue pink
Bruno Cooke on the many faces of artist, poet and social worker Tom Stockley
Photo by Will Thomas
Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf
Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf
What does Bruno Cooke say?
While studying Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London I regularly performed on the spoken word circuit in London, competed in poetry slams ...
Selected Ambient Works
Bruno Cooke reviews You've got so many machines, Richard: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry, edited by Rishi Dastidar and Aaron Kent (Broken Sleep, 2022)
Prizes prised from the perished
Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)