A Slow Blues, Poems 1972-2012, brings together poems from David Cooke's three previous collections alongside A Virtual Tour, a sequence of more recent poems. In the words of William Bedford, writing in Agenda: 'The ghosts of a West of Ireland family haunt these poems, but Cooke is not treading ground already made familiar by others. Growing up in England, he is a poet whose 'making strange' grows naturally out of his exile between two countries. After a long silence, David Cooke has burst back into life, in a welcome and gifted performance.

David Cooke graduated from Queen's University with a Bachelor of Arts, and from Toronto Baptist Seminary with a Master of Divinity. He served as a church pastor in Ontario, Canada, and as a missionary teacher in Honduras. He presently serves with Campaign Life Coalition, and also does itinerant preaching and teaching. He is married and has two children.