Multimedia Art and Creative Writing
This web site is intended as a web presence that reflects Martyn Cooper’s current life. He is no longer in employment having retired early on health grounds. So it reflects his various activities that he fills his days with and seeks to find meaning and purpose in this stage of life.
If you are interested in my previous academic work my work related blog is still available here: http://martyncooper.wordpress.com.
Like many, I have long harboured a desire to be a writer. As someone wisely commented a writer is someone who writes. This blog is a place where I can publish some of my creative writing old and new.
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This is a title I have long held as being apt for my autobiography. Everybody has periods of more or less good fortune or high levels of activity contrasting with periods of ennui. Well I have this in extremis! I have a psychiatric diagnosis of bipolar. At the moment my mood is “high” and my …
A weekend of sport, well watching it on the television.My days of running round after a ball are long over.I can still enjoy the emotional ebb and flow as the game progresses,And admire the skill on display.
“You know? Times are hard”“Well he has had a hard time”And time is hard,Relentlessly hard.Hard time. [Martyn Cooper 1-10-1983]