David Cook: publications

Marking Time: Poetry and Thought during the Pandemic 978-1838472610 240 pages, softback £12.50

'A lockdown blog skilfully turned to advantage, as the thoughts come to us in short bursts - and not only thoughts: there are also engagements with significant thinkers, Kant and Heidegger among them; poems, some of them extremely memorable; and reflections on everyday life, all delivered with intelligence and wit.'

'the poems glow in their context like jewels threaded on a necklace.'

Bright Islands

978-1916095342 £9.00

'All the time I spent studying to improve myself, I was nursing a hatred for my ex and her evil mother. And in the end I killed them.'

A collection of the author's poems and including translations of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and Octets by Osip Mandelstam.

The Sonnets to Orpheus 978-1908326140 £6.00

'In this concise, beautiful and profound translation each sonnet is a meditation to be dwelt upon.'

'This is a delightful new translation of Rilke's sonnets making them accessible but not losing the magic.'

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