Tim Cooke
@timc1986.bsky.social
Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.
My 9-year-old has just finished reading a history of Alcatraz and now wants a bio of Shane MacGowan. I am very proud.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My 9-year-old has just finished reading a history of Alcatraz and now wants a bio of Shane MacGowan. I am very proud.
I watched The White Ribbon for perhaps the fifth time last night - for something I’m writing - and it remains one of the most perfect and powerful films I’ve ever seen.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I watched The White Ribbon for perhaps the fifth time last night - for something I’m writing - and it remains one of the most perfect and powerful films I’ve ever seen.
Kids are away, which means a Saturday evening of PhD…
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Kids are away, which means a Saturday evening of PhD…
This new Seamus Fogarty song is 👌 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFz...
Seamus Fogarty - 'I Passed Your House' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Lost Map Records
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November 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This new Seamus Fogarty song is 👌 m.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFz...
Current reads - so far so good…
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Current reads - so far so good…
Listening to Jeff Tweedy’s brilliant new album has sent me back to this. Man’s a genius… m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRp...
Having Been is No Way to Be - Jeff Tweedy - Live from Here
YouTube video by Radio Heartland
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November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Listening to Jeff Tweedy’s brilliant new album has sent me back to this. Man’s a genius… m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRp...
Wild stuff from Lankum here… Love it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
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November 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wild stuff from Lankum here… Love it. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLn...
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A great tribute to Diogo Jota by @hersport.bsky.social .
July 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A great tribute to Diogo Jota by @hersport.bsky.social .
Loved reading Carole Angier’s Sebald bio at the same time as Vertigo. Just as I was finishing the latter, sat in a field on the weekend, a moth - a recurring symbol in his work - landed on the page…
June 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Loved reading Carole Angier’s Sebald bio at the same time as Vertigo. Just as I was finishing the latter, sat in a field on the weekend, a moth - a recurring symbol in his work - landed on the page…
Great to see this Goodreads review of my @nightjarpress.bsky.social chapbook from Andrew Hook. Available here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/tim-cooke.html
June 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Great to see this Goodreads review of my @nightjarpress.bsky.social chapbook from Andrew Hook. Available here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/tim-cooke.html
Spotted a fox and its cubs playing by the tracks in Walthamstow this evening…
May 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Spotted a fox and its cubs playing by the tracks in Walthamstow this evening…
For some reason, out of everything I’ve ever read, I think two images have stayed with me more than any others: Sebald’s fishermen with their backs turned on the world, and Proust’s boy digging his own grave by undoing the covers alone…
May 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
For some reason, out of everything I’ve ever read, I think two images have stayed with me more than any others: Sebald’s fishermen with their backs turned on the world, and Proust’s boy digging his own grave by undoing the covers alone…
Can confirm the new
Propagandhi album is, as expected, outstanding… m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRc...
Propagandhi album is, as expected, outstanding… m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRc...
Propagandhi - "No Longer Young" (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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May 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Can confirm the new
Propagandhi album is, as expected, outstanding… m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRc...
Propagandhi album is, as expected, outstanding… m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRc...
My lovely first born, who arrived almost 10 weeks early weighing just 3lbs, turns nine today - total legend…
April 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My lovely first born, who arrived almost 10 weeks early weighing just 3lbs, turns nine today - total legend…
Wow! Second episode of The Studio is insanely good, and excruciating.
April 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Wow! Second episode of The Studio is insanely good, and excruciating.
My Easter holidays so far. I’ve passed the 100,000-word mark, which is new…
April 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My Easter holidays so far. I’ve passed the 100,000-word mark, which is new…
Caught in my element yesterday evening…
April 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Caught in my element yesterday evening…
Got a new story in this great mag. You can buy a copy here 5767.co.uk/shop/
March 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Got a new story in this great mag. You can buy a copy here 5767.co.uk/shop/
Have only recently got into John Cale, and I’m a bit obsessed. Delighted to see this coming out…
My John Cale book comes out tomorrow so apologies if I'm annoying about it for the next day or two. Trying to get rich.
John Cale's Paris 1919
John Cale's enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate he…
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February 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Have only recently got into John Cale, and I’m a bit obsessed. Delighted to see this coming out…
Got a new story in this. It’s called Debris, and it features a piece of space junk on the South Wales Coalfield… 5767.co.uk/product/spin...
Spinners Issue 9 – 5767
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February 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Got a new story in this. It’s called Debris, and it features a piece of space junk on the South Wales Coalfield… 5767.co.uk/product/spin...
Interesting set up this morning… #iconoclasmaschildsplay
February 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Interesting set up this morning… #iconoclasmaschildsplay
This is very, very good…
January 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is very, very good…
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Hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since ‘The Hours of Our Lady’ was pub'd by @salopress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to everyone that bought a copy, and those who said nice things about it! If you'd like to read it, it’s available from the Salo Press store!
www.salopress.com/store/the-ho...
www.salopress.com/store/the-ho...
January 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since ‘The Hours of Our Lady’ was pub'd by @salopress.bsky.social . Huge thanks to everyone that bought a copy, and those who said nice things about it! If you'd like to read it, it’s available from the Salo Press store!
www.salopress.com/store/the-ho...
www.salopress.com/store/the-ho...
Contrary to this post, I have started 2025 with my first piece of short fiction in over a year. Sent it off this morning… 🤞
Thanks to everyone who read Dark Play in 2024, and to those who reviewed it - the response has been a highlight of my year. Massive thanks to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing it. Once my PhD is done, I’ll have more weird on the way.
January 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Contrary to this post, I have started 2025 with my first piece of short fiction in over a year. Sent it off this morning… 🤞