by Rose Cook
Rose Cook’s Notes From a Bright Field is ‘a single quiet path, in and out’, capturing the transitory beauties of the everyday: a mother’s ashes imagined as ‘Lux flakes’; the ‘fruit-gummed glass’ of a cathedral. Where the poems’ themes are of nature, loss and the spiritual, these are grounded in concrete imagery like ‘the clack-clack of the shell and the bones’.
Paperback; 104pp; 203×127 mm; 978-0-9568921-9-5; July 2013; Cultured Llama; £10.00
Cultured Llama is a small independent publisher. Support us and our authors by clicking on ‘Add to Cart’ below (UK customers only) or contact us to order from outside the UK. If you prefer, you can order online or – even better – from your local bookshop. Contact us for trade enquiries.
Proceed to cart
Rose Cook is one of the South-West’s best loved poets, having performed extensively in venues such as the Soho Theatre in London, the Bristol Poetry Festival and Dartington’s Ways With Words Literature Festival, as well as a variety of local poetry events. She is an Apples & Snakes poet and has appeared at the North Devon Festival in Barnstaple, Plymouth’s Barbican theatre, Exeter Phoenix’s Text Festival and a Peterloo Poets event in Cornwall.
Rose co-founded the popular Devon poetry and performance forum One Night Stanza, as well as poetry performance group Dangerous Cardigans. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Devon and local SoundArt radio.
She has run writing workshops with older people and offers poems for reading aloud at the Totnes Memory Cafe.
Previous poetry books are Everyday Festival published by HappenStance Press (2009) and Taking Flight published by Oversteps Books (2009).
www.rosecook.wordpress.com
In their transparency and deceptive simplicity Rose Cook’s poems reveal pure and hidden depths in nature, memory and loss, celebrating and questioning the fragility of everyday interactions. These are indeed poems for people ‘who juggle [their] lives’, insisting in their gratitude that we ‘be still sometimes’. To read Notes From a Bright Field is to be renewed in body, mind and spirit.
Anthony Wilson
Rose Cook’s poems are often poignant, reflecting the many variables of ordinary lives, but always with a lightness of touch, an acceptance of what it is to be human.
A collection fluid and sincere, the poems are wide ranging, sometimes painterly, sometimes with a wonderful down-to-earth diction and a singular inwardness that delights.
Denise McSheehy
§ 10 Responses to Notes From a Bright Field"
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
[…] Notes From a Bright Field by Rose Cook […]
[…] Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field (Cultured Llama, […]
[…] Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field (Cultured Llama, […]
[…] Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field (Cultured Llama, […]
[…] appears in a new Bloodaxe anthology, Lifesaving Poems edited by Anthony Wilson. The poem is in Notes From a Bright Field, which you can buy for £8 from Cultured […]
[…] with Everyday Festival (2009) and by Oversteps Books Taking Flight (2009). Her latest collection is Notes From a Bright Field published by Cultured Llama. You can find out more about Rose by heading over to her website […]
[…] Phew, what a lot of reviews! Last of all, Kim Moore features Rose Cook’s ‘A Poem for someone who is juggling her life’ as her Sunday Poem. The poem appears in Notes From a Bright Field. […]
[…] the book for £10 plus p&p: Hearth. Add in Rose Cook’s Notes from a Bright Field, also £10, and get free post and packing, as you will when you buy two or more books from this […]
[…] in a copy of Rose Cook’s Notes From a Bright Field and p&p is […]
[…] Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field (Cultured Llama, […]