Collected Poems

Collected Poems represents a lifetime’s work, and in it we see the full range of Cooke’s themes and interests. I find his nostalgia for a Catholicism, in which he cannot bring himself to believe, to be the most engaging aspect of his poetry. This is so profound and poetic as to constitute a kind of agnostic mysticism.” —Mildred Faintly. Find her full review of this book here.

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