Bruno Cooke

The Joy of Cycling
Our Spoken Word Editor Bruno Cooke is off round the world on two wheels. He considers the joy of cycling, in 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
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

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)

Do girls not have fangs?
Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig

Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into
Bruno Cooke reviews C+nto: & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Saqi Books, 2021)

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