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‘The Wren Boy’ by David Cooke

The Wren Boy I must have been having the time of my life the year I started singing, trying hard to remember the words, but high on applause and silver. In the lounge bar of a pub in Swinford I tried out a repertoire I’d culled from the Clancys and mixed to a Home Counties hybrid. Shock-headed, crowd-pleasing, I might have been one of their … Continue reading ‘The Wren Boy’ by David Cooke

Josephine CorcoranMarch 17, 2017March 17, 2018
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Two poems by David Cooke

  Faro We’re two hours’ flight from a northern spring; the impassive sky we’ve left behind us a canvas primed but still awaiting some splash of inspiration; the grey pavements underscoring routines we cling to; but here our touchdown lights a spark in a town whose name suggests a beacon and where all winter, unknown to us, the orange trees on the Largo da Sé … Continue reading Two poems by David Cooke

Josephine CorcoranJune 20, 2014

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