Comments on: Bernard Kops, Poet, Novelist & Playwright https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:16:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sally K https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1170672 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:16:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1170672 A great evening last night at Leila’s Cafe – thank you for suggesting/organising.
Fascinating

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168884 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:10:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168884 To think, Bernard Kops’ favorite poem ‘Granchester’ is also mine! Have never read his Whitechapel Library poem before, that place was the saviour of my family (despite the fact my grandfather was wrongly ’rounded up’ there as an enemy alien during the First World War’!)
How I wish I could attend the poetry reading, but alas crossing the Atlantic is a little too far. Thank you for a wonderful read GA.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168869 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:16:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168869 Miracle of miracles we have another poet on I am pleased about that – Bernard knows his stuff. Don’t stop writing your bank of words you have stored over the years can still be used for future poems. I like your style of easy read poems. Poet John

]]> By: Jenny Lee-Kench https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168863 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:53:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168863 Wonderful poetry and why haven’t I heard about this lovely poet before. I belong to a poetry site called Poem Hunter and they have no listing of him either. Shame on me and shame on them. Mr. Kops, I salute you and only wish I lived near enough to attend your poetry evening at Leila’s Cafe. Wishing you all a great evening on the 26th.

]]> By: Eddie Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168859 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:32:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168859 Great Playwright Bernard Kops. I remember meeting him in Jersey in the mid fifties, I was working in the Docks there, he was going out with a waitress who was lame, she worked in Fortes, a cafe on the Island, and he seemed quite impressed when he was talking to me that I knew who Narcissus was. He was a nice man who I used to see walking round Soho in the late fifties, he recommended ‘Bunjies’ a famous coffee bar at the time that me and my friends started to go to.

If you are lucky enough to speak to him give him my regards he might faintly remember a tall East end boy working in Jersey.

Eddie Johnson.

]]> By: Karen Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168854 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:47:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168854 A wonderful poem and he sounds a lovely man – Whitechapel Library helped so many out of the ghetto
it sounds a great evening

]]> By: Pritam Singh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168848 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168848 Wonderful words, very agreeable reading.
Thank you.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168840 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 06:35:40 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168840 Wonderful words from a very talented man! Valerie

]]> By: Vanda https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/09/14/bernard-kops-poet-novelist-playwright/#comment-1168833 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:26:02 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=160119#comment-1168833 I am not a poetry person, but these were sensational. It felt as if I was walking the streets, visiting the library with Mr Kops. Who knows Mr Kops, maybe just maybe you have a convert.

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