Stanley Cook reading by Peter Sansom
Apologies to those of you receiving this who are not in Sheffield (or nearby).
Dear Poets
Rather late in the day, but you are very warmly invited along to the Sticky Bun Club event tonight (Tuesday 4th May). Please do join us if you can. Beer, wine, tea, coffee available as well as Sticky Buns. And Stanley Cook's Collected Poems at half-price on the night!
All good wishes
Peter Sansom
7.30pm, Caffetteria, Leopold Street, Sheffield, 7:30pm, £3 on the door
Stanley Cook. Peter Sansom reads from and talks about one of the most engaging and insightful of Sheffield poets.
Stanley Cook (1922 - 1991) wrote three books of poems which brilliantly detail South Yorkshire, from Sheffield Midland Station and Page Hall to the pigeon cotes on Penistone Road, and which give wonderful portraits of such as George the Barber ('His hair and moustache were Italian to the end. His breath was Scotch') and Uncle Baxter ('a little man you could have kept in a cupboard'). Cook was a school teacher for much of his life (from which his pamphlets Staff Photograph and Form Photograph) before teaching at Huddersfield Polytechnic.
‘Stanley Cook was an exemplary, compassionate, unsentimental poet of Yorkshire. His work is solid and warm with a distinctive local and universal humanity. ‘Woods beyond a Cornfield’, the title poem which runs to over 600 lines, is his masterpiece - complicated, emotionally bruising, and, like all his work, robust, questing, darting into beautiful, mysterious images.’ — Douglas Dunn
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