Bruno Cooke
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Prizes prised from the perished
Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)
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Do girls not have fangs?
Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig
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Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into
Bruno Cooke reviews C+nto: & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Saqi Books, 2021)
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Slug snog
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’
Bruno Cooke traces the development of Kae Tempest
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I don’t think Death has used a PlayStation before
Bruno Cooke reviews Hit Points — an anthology of video game poetry, edited by Aaron Kent and Matthew Haigh (Broken Sleep, 2021)
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By golly, I’ve got it
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
Bruno Cooke meets Spoken Word poet Joelle Taylor and discusses activism, education and the power of poetry