David Cooper

It was my Dad’s funeral yesterday &, today, the sadness is immeasurable. I’m grateful though, that, for the last few weeks of his life, we shared a view of the city in which he’d lived & worked for over 50 years #Liverpool

First thing on campus @ManMetUni & looking forward to spending the day meeting our new @PlaceCentre postgraduate researcher @supriyadhaliwal & third-year @MMUEnglishDept Critical Project students.

‘Each time I’ve been to Fingal’s Cave, the sense of natural magnitude dwarfing human endeavour has been inescapable. Turner’s painting amplified the feeling: a luminescent, natural arch opening into the unfathomable past’: Fiona Stafford on Staffa in ‘Time & Tide’.

Just remembered that my first ever publications were in the much-missed, acerbic #LFC fanzine ‘Through the Wind & Rain’. I was so proud that I framed the articles & put them on my bedroom wall. Sadly, over a quarter of a century later, I haven’t got a clue what I wrote about.

‘Chopping, Working, Thinking’: fascinatingly wide-ranging essay on life in a kitchen by former @McrWritingSchl creative non-fiction MA student @JoeFennUK This is the first post in Joe’s new food writing blog, ‘Panorama: The View from the Kitchen’ joefennwrites.wixsite.com/mysite/post/ch…