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Bruno Cooke

Photograph of what looks like a goalpost at dusk. Its hard to tell though, it could be a large staple superimposed on a landscape background.

A good flow is like a fossil / it preserves the time

Bruno Cooke reviews The Lost Chronicle by Polarbear (Bloomsbury, 2022) 

Continue readingA good flow is like a fossil / it preserves the time
A red background has a repeating pattern on it, the pattern comprises two open hands with stigmata, a syringe with a needle and some figs, halved and whole.

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)

Continue readingThe wasp in the fig’s tissue, sharp as a slice of paper
The word Orlam in black script on a parchment background. The "O" is enormous and is surrounded by small line drawings of birds and insects in red. White lines like trees are in the background, and a black line-drawn lamb hangs in the centre.

Your death opens gates to the dark world

Bruno Cooke reviews Orlam by PJ Harvey (Picador, 2022)

Continue readingYour death opens gates to the dark world
Tom is dressed in, I dunno, cellophane maybe? the background is broadly pink and they have a hat that resembles a chicken carcasse

Sky blue pink

Bruno Cooke on the many faces of artist, poet and social worker Tom Stockley

Photo by Will Thomas

Continue readingSky blue pink
three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

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

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and 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 ...

Continue readingWhat does Bruno Cooke say?
Kind ofd abstract blocky design in blue and grey with a pause icon in a orange circle in the centre.

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)

Continue readingSelected Ambient Works
a black handprint on a white background with a yellow stripe down the left hand side

Prizes prised from the perished

Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)

Continue readingPrizes prised from the perished
Bad Betties written in black curly script on a white background there are some footprints and nude female silhouettes a candle and a broomstick.

Do girls not have fangs?

Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig

Continue readingDo girls not have fangs?
The word C+nto in white text on a gold background, underneath is the text "& othered poems" in black. Both fonts are serif.

Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into

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

Continue readingHer fear is a dress she can no longer fit into
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background

Slug snog

Bruno Cooke reviews Slug by Hollie McNish (Little, Brown, 2021)

Continue readingSlug snog
photo of Kae Tempest, short hair, black polo shirt

‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’

Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest

Continue reading‘I did my one little verse and the place just went nuts’
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