David F. Cooper Writer, Translator, and Shoshana Cooper’s Trophyhus

J.K Rowling was famously rejected by a mighty 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury – and even then only at the insistence of the chairman’s eight-year-old daughter. Judy Blume, Gertrude Stein and D.H Lawrence all got a lot of ‘no’s from publishers

I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after [...]

I dreamed I called you on the telephone  to say: Be kinder to yourself  but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this waytrying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after the [...]