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Jennifer Cooke

Jennifer Cooke is a London-based poet. Her first collection of poems, *not suitable for domestic sublimation (Contraband Press) came out in June 2012. Her work can be found online, in print and anthologised in Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK; The Other Room Anthology; and In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway. Her poetry has been written about by David and Christine Kennedy in their book Women’s Experimental Poetry 1970-2010: Body, Time and Locale (2013). Her new collection of apocalypse dream poems, Saros, will be coming out shortly. A Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK, she also frequently writes about contemporary poetics and reviews poetry.

End Notes

from Apocalypse Dreams it’s the end the end of the city end of your city which is also a country ending at stake the city on shut down the city a military zone full of vigilantes we hide everyone hides …

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Dream

from Apocalypse Dreams how shit would it be if the end of the world was a rave in the snow. yet here it is. muddy snowy footfalls & loud music & stoned eyes with drugs generated from beetroot compounds nicknamed …

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Carry On

from Apocalypse Dreams I did not expect to find myself at the end of the world camping. But I am and now naturally: the tent peg & tarpaulin are familiars of many before me, before us. A small enough encampment …

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Dream

from Apocalypse Dreams The world is green and in flower, delicate but fecund So green it almost hurts: no deadness anyplace, not a twig Nor a fallen leaf but the bright greens of later spring and waving vari-coloured flowerheads. Everywhere …

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Sky Writing

from Apocalypse Dreams The democracy of water: shocking really in the stratified worlds we are losing. But these internal compulsions of tidal ligaments deeper, older than me and simply unstoppable. On the edge I consider these realities with the likelihood …

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I Alice

from Apocalypse Dreams on a journey i discover i have a magic power: i can make objects larger or smaller with my index finger though i don’t know which way they will go until i touch them. i make a …

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