Books By David Cooke - Author

David Cooke was born in Wokingham, although his family comes from the West of Ireland. In 1977, while still an undergraduate at Nottingham University, he won a Gregory Award and since then his poems and reviews have appeared in many journals in the UK, Ireland and beyond. He has published seven collections, including A Murmuration (Two Rivers Press, 2015) and Staring at a Hoopoe (Dempsey and Windle, 2020). Founder and editor of the online poetry journal The High Window, he is married with four grown-up children and was for many years the Head of Modern Languages at a large comprehensive school in Cleethorpes. He is now happily retired and lives in Swindon.