Bernard Kops
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Bernard Kops is a British Dramatist, poet
and novelist, born in the East End of London
in 1926.
His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British Kitchen Sink Drama
.
Subsequent plays include Enter Solly Gold (1962), Ezra (1981, about Ezra Pound
), Playing Sinatra (1991) and The Dreams of Ann Frank (1992, about Ann Frank). He has also written extensively for radio and television.
Kops wrote the television movie script "Just One Kid" for director/producer John Goldschmidt, the film was transmitted on the ITV Network in 1974, and won a Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Kops then wrote the television mini-series "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow", about the Bethnal Green disaster of 1943, for director/producer John Goldschmidt, and this was Nominated for an International Emmy Award for Drama Series in 1976.
He has published volumes of poetry, autobiography, several novels, and a memoir of the East End, Bernard Kops' East End (2006).
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and novelist, born in the East End of London
London
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in 1926.
His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British Kitchen Sink Drama
Kitchen sink realism
Kitchen sink realism is a term coined to describe a British cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film and television plays, whose 'heroes' usually could be described as angry young men...
.
Subsequent plays include Enter Solly Gold (1962), Ezra (1981, about Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...
), Playing Sinatra (1991) and The Dreams of Ann Frank (1992, about Ann Frank). He has also written extensively for radio and television.
Kops wrote the television movie script "Just One Kid" for director/producer John Goldschmidt, the film was transmitted on the ITV Network in 1974, and won a Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Kops then wrote the television mini-series "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow", about the Bethnal Green disaster of 1943, for director/producer John Goldschmidt, and this was Nominated for an International Emmy Award for Drama Series in 1976.
He has published volumes of poetry, autobiography, several novels, and a memoir of the East End, Bernard Kops' East End (2006).
Selected bibliography
Kops, Bernard -- Awake for Mourning (MacGibbon and Kee, 1958)
- Motorbike (New English Library, 1962
- The World is a Wedding (MacGibbon & Kee, 1963)
- Yes from No-Man's Land (MacGibbon and Kee, 1965)
- The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro (MacGibbon and Kee, 1966)
- By the Waters of Whitechapel (Bodley Head, 1969)
- The Passionate Past of Gloria Gaye (Secker and Warburg, 1971)
- Settle Down Simon Katz (Secker and Warburg)
- Partners (Secker and Warburg, 1975)
- On Margate Sands (Secker and Warburg, 1978)
- Neither Your Honey nor Your Sting: An Offbeat History of the Jews (Robson, 1985)
- Plays One (Playing Sinatra, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Ezra) (Oberon Books, 1999)
- Plays Two (Dreams of Anne Frank, Cafe Zeitgeist, Call in the Night) (Oberon Books, 2000)
- Plays Three (The Dream of Peter Mann, Enter Solly Gold, Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?) (Oberon Books, 2001)
- Shalom Bomb: The Autobiography of Bernard Kops (Oberon Books, 2000)
- Where Do People Go (The Happy Dragons' PressHappy Dragons' PressThe Happy Dragons' Press is a non-profit private press in North Essex, UK, which publishes limited edition volumes of poetry using letterpress printing methods. There are currently two series produced by the press, the Dragon Poems in Translation series and the New Garland series...
, 2004) - Bernard Kops East End (Five Leaves Publications, 2006)
- This Room in the Sunlight: Collected Poems (David Paul, 2010)
Links
- Review of This Room in the Sunlight: Collected Poems, Dan Carrier Camden New Journal http://www.camdennewjournal.com/reviews/books/2010/jan/book-review-room-sunlight-collection-poems-bernard-kops
- Bernard Kops poetry at Jewish Book Week http://www.jewishbookweek.com/new-books/poetry.php#Kops
- List of Bernard Kops theatre plays http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/KopsBernard.htm
- Bernard Kops at Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465956/
- List of Bernard Kops radio plays http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/bkops.html
- A sad letter of apology for a wasted life, by Aleks Sierz, The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, 12 May 2000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-sad-letter-of-apology-for-a-wasted-life-625573.html - The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster 3rd March 1943. The largest civilian loss of life in WWll. 173 died. www.stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org