Comments on: So Long, Bernard Kops https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:38:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mervyn Gilbert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1556236 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:38:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1556236 Was there a great rivalry between Bernard Kops, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, or did each admire the writing style and output of the others?
Despite growing up in the same neck of the woods, were they ever seen together or did they keep their distance from each other?

]]> By: Jane https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555399 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:57:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555399 Thank you Gentle Author for this lovely account of Bernard Kops.
He was a regular customer at Better Books in Charing X Rd, where I worked and he enriched my life with thoughtful, and often quirky, accounts of books and authors that he recommended. He jokingly encouraged me in the collection of funny titles for books, short stories and poems- A Glut of Rubber Gloves- was a favourite. Thank you Bernard Kops for opening my mind to literature, reading and history.

]]> By: Mark Smith https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555286 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:16:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555286 Seemed like a good bloke.
If he was fictionalized in the brilliant Colin McInnes Absolute Beginners, that’s testament to his poetical ability. I’m sure he had a fascinating life. All power to his elbow.

]]> By: achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555284 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:09:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555284 Bernard Kops was born in the same year as my father. And I read some of his wonderful lines of poetry for the first time today: “That door of the library was the door into me.”

Dear BERNARD KOPS (1926-2024) — R.I.P

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555279 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:31:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555279 So much sadness from his past, but Inspirational. RIP Bernard Kops.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555259 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:14:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555259 May his soul rest in peace .
His words he wrote to me were,”Read and be patient.”

]]> By: James Harris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555253 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:50:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555253 The small poem “For You” just made my eyes well up. What a lovely man you were Bernard Kops.

]]> By: Marie Lenclos https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555249 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:41:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555249 A beautiful and touching story

]]> By: Karen Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/03/05/so-long-bernard-kops/#comment-1555243 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:18:09 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199121#comment-1555243 I loved reading Bernard’s poem Whitechapel Library.
It was the making of my Dad’s future too and so many
others.

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