Comments on: Bernard Kops, Writer

By: catherine barry

catherine barry — Sat, 08 May 2021 06:43:09 +0000

Evocative so touching new discovery .
Reminiscent of childhood’s wonder of the library as sanctuary …..
Listened to
Radio 4 extras “”Somewhere Over The Rainbow”””.
Wanted to find out about the author .
Fab new resouce .Thank you Bernard Kop

By: Barbara Goldstein

Barbara Goldstein — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 16:27:11 +0000

I enjoyed reading about my mum’s brother, Uncle Bernie to me. I am interested in Geneology and this filled in the facts about my grandfather coming to Britain.

By: Lionel Avery

Lionel Avery — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:29:17 +0000

A wonderful writer and poet

By: Neville Turner

Neville Turner — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:22:57 +0000

I connected to the library poem because Whitechapel Library was my gateway to learning
to read.The very first book by chance was Treasure Island from the children’s section I would
skip the words I did not understand but still got to the story.A very enjoyable piece.
The World Is a Wedding a book by Bernard Kops is a really good read.

By: Liam T Kirk

Liam T Kirk — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:04:45 +0000

Just spotted Bernard Kops in Sainsbury’s Finchley Road.

By: Eddie Johnson

Eddie Johnson — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:25:18 +0000

I wonder if Bernard Kops remembers a summer on Jersey in the early fifties when he was taking a waitress out. She worked in a Forte cafe/restaurant on the island. I worked as a casual in the docks, we would talk sometimes and he was immensely surprised when I knew who Narcissus was. I used to see him wandering around Soho sometimes, in fact he recommended ‘Bunjis’ coffee bar to me.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:41:14 +0000

Your writing was a revelation.
I lost my husband (Michael Almaz, former Kol Israel correspondent)
last year after 40 years. If only I’d had the second poem to read at his funeral; beautiful.
Thank you.

By: barbara kushner

barbara kushner — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:02:19 +0000

I heard the Whitechapel Library poem yesterday on the radio, and found it profoundly moving. So I searched for it on the Internet. My parents grew up in the East End in the early years of the 19th century, in extreme poverty, so it’s a world I feel I know from them and their stories.

Thank you for this poem and the beautiful love poem about your relationship with Erica and the touching photograph.

I would like to know when the Library poem was written.

By: joan

joan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:51:46 +0000

Bernard Kops fans might like to know that a copy of his book ‘Motorbike’ is currently on display in the ‘Pop! Design Culture Fashion’ exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey.

Joan

By: Veronica Zundel

Veronica Zundel — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:10:19 +0000

My late brother Stephen, who took his own life in 1975, lodged with Bernard Kops in Finchley in the late 60s or early 70s. Coming back from my mother’s memorial service I found the link to this article on Facebook. We still have a signed copy of Kops’ novel The Dissent of Dominic Kaplan. So good to hear he is still going strong.