Tom Cook
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poet critic person · typographer @FaberBooks · contributor @theTLS · known birdwatcher · for typesetting work: [email protected]
Oxford
Joined May 2012
These are the most satisfying books I’ve ever typeset. The hardback recreates the original 1965 layout in Perpetua type; the paperback offers a slick new setting, with stanzas preserved across page breaks and each poem given the breathing room it needs. Come buy, come buy!
‘I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.’ Ariel: the sixtieth anniversary editions are out now.
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In tribute to the late Tony Harrison, @BBCRadio4 will be rebroadcasting this 2013 feature on v., his controversial long poem. Tony Harrison read the poem in full, and Blake Morrison discussed the poem's impact. Tune in at 11pm tonight, or listen later. https://t.co/t5Z8nV2nD1
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The controversial poem by Tony Harrison, to mark his death.
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there is no ethical use of ai and the sooner you all accept that the better!
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Happy New Dylan Bootleg Day to all who celebrate https://t.co/rEpix9slGT
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Bob Dylan · album · 2025 · 42 songs
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Thom Gunn writes to Robert Pinsky about the mysteries of Wordsworth (1 June 1989)
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Splitting a major poetry prize between two winners is a ludicrous thing to do, right? We’re not in primary school any more
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Show us your favourite classics-inspired Halloween costumes, any year!
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Come one, come all to this @thelondonmag event a week tomorrow to see me and three others attempting a perilous thing: reading our poems exclusively FROM MEMORY ... https://t.co/2wMypSLuht
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Lovely anecdote in which Tennyson does not argue with George Eliot
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This is a poem about spring. Yeats remains victorious
If this isn't the greatest and most beloved autumn poem of the twentieth century, I'm going to take up knitting.
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James has put forward some very strong contenders, but *this* is actually the great autumn poem of the twentieth century:
My other candidate for greatest twentieth century autumn poem is Dylan Thomas's Poem in October. I think it's almost the best thing he ever wrote. So much amazing stuff in just the first two stanzas. https://t.co/5Epn4YFDZ7
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I was there tonight and feel like I’ve just undergone a religious experience
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This is very funny, and was new to me. Alan Bennett on Philip Larkin in 1982.
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The reasons for not saying it, of course are: 1) there are more important things to say about the book itself, and 2) I really would end up saying it in nearly every review, over and over and over again, to no avail whatsoever
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This is something I want to say in almost every single book review I write. It applies to the majority of the best university presses in the world, many of which still publish *their own style guides*
copy editing straight up does not fucking exist anymore & publications of all kinds at the highest levels of professionalism are rife with spelling, grammatical, mechanical, usage errors & AI killed any hope of it ever getting better because they're training on the shitty data.
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Fantastic to see the heritage edition of Plath’s Ariel (typeset by yours truly) reviewed by Seamus Perry in @theTLS this week: https://t.co/SPvqVXeNB3
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“Well, I have finished a 2nd book of poems in this last month”, Sylvia Plath wrote home to her mother on November, 1962, “30 new poems.” Her first volume, The Colossus, had appeared two years before...
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I’ll tell you what freedom is: no fear. Like Tom fucking Cruise.
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