Name W. Cocker | Role Poet | |
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Died 1970, Glasgow, United Kingdom | ||
The Deluge By W D Cocker - Recitation by Agnes Bartholomew - Scottish poem
W. D. Cocker (1882, Rutherglen – 1970) was a Scottish poet who wrote in both Scots and English.
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Life
W. D. Cocker was born into a family of Glasgow merchants.
In the First World War, he served with the Highland Light Infantry, and was taken prisoner in 1917. His war poetry is fairly limited in scope, but includes the poems "Up the Line to Poelkapelle", "The Sniper" and a five-part sonnet cycle entitled "Sonnets in Captivity".
After the war Cocker entered the account department of the Daily Record, and was the paper's drama citic until retirement in 1956. He is best known for his humorous poems in Scots, often on Biblical themes, such as "The Deluge", on the story of Noah and the Flood. Books of his poems include "Poems: Scots and English", Further Poems", "New Poems" and "Randon Rhymes and Ballads".