Tom Cook
@tomcook24.bsky.social
poet critic person • typographer for Faber & Faber and elsewhere • TLS contributor • currently editing a new selection of Wordsworth • typesetting work: tom.cook@turnstonebooks.co.uk
Thanks to @thetls.bsky.social for publishing this, which is the last thing I’ll say about Brian Vickers, Gabriel Egan (what a charming man), and the tedium of ‘attribution studies’
September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thanks to @thetls.bsky.social for publishing this, which is the last thing I’ll say about Brian Vickers, Gabriel Egan (what a charming man), and the tedium of ‘attribution studies’
My latest @thetls.bsky.social review, in which I suggest that early modern ‘authorship studies’ are a dead end and we’re tired of grown men fighting over toys
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Questions of attribution
This new century has done strange things to most of us; but in the field of Renaissance drama studies, to no one more so than Brian Vickers. His transformation has been stark, and clearly began in tha...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My latest @thetls.bsky.social review, in which I suggest that early modern ‘authorship studies’ are a dead end and we’re tired of grown men fighting over toys
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
Today’s fun little poem: Walt Whitman – who at one time worked as a ‘printer’s devil’ – on the ‘pallid slivers’ of metal in their trays. (Nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, and long primer were names for type sizes before the standard point system.)
April 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today’s fun little poem: Walt Whitman – who at one time worked as a ‘printer’s devil’ – on the ‘pallid slivers’ of metal in their trays. (Nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, and long primer were names for type sizes before the standard point system.)
Tonight!
Is this thing on? Hello.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
April 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Tonight!
Is this thing on? Hello.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
April 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Is this thing on? Hello.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
I’ll be reading this wedding poem for two friends – plus a couple of other new things – in Oxford this Sunday, 7pm, at the Lamb & Flag’s Poetry Night.
If that sounds appealing, or if you owe me a drink, please do come along. I promise to be reasonably okay.
Tonight!
People living in or near Oxford! I’m reading at the Lamb & Flag tomorrow night (with Jamie McKendrick and other fine folk), where I’ll be debuting my not-at-all-insane new sequence of pub poems…
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Tonight!
People living in or near Oxford! I’m reading at the Lamb & Flag tomorrow night (with Jamie McKendrick and other fine folk), where I’ll be debuting my not-at-all-insane new sequence of pub poems…
November 23, 2024 at 11:22 PM
People living in or near Oxford! I’m reading at the Lamb & Flag tomorrow night (with Jamie McKendrick and other fine folk), where I’ll be debuting my not-at-all-insane new sequence of pub poems…