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David Paul Press present: ‘This Room in the Sunlight’ with Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops, one of Britain’s most celebrated and prolific authors, has written more than forty plays for stage and radio, nine novels and two autobiographies, as well as seven volumes of poetry. ‘This Room in the Sunlight’ is his eighth - and latest - collection of poems,  covering his preoccupations with love and death, reflecting his early breakdown and drug addiction, family life, growing up in London's East End, growing old and his Jewish identity.

He has included well-known poems such as ‘Shalom Bomb’, an unofficial anthem for the CND movement in the 1960’s, and the more recent ‘Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East’, in which he mourns the passing of the old library in London’s East End, a gathering place for writers and radicals of the area. Other poems tell of his feelings about encounters with people, ordinary and famous. There are glimpses of WH Auden, Allen Ginsberg and Henry Williamson, alongside those of his friends, neighbours and loved ones.

Join us at Housmans to hear Kops reading and discussing his poetry. There will also be an opportunity to have books signed.