Michael Cope
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Michael Cope was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1952. His father was the distinguished novelist Jack Cope. He has worked, among other things, as a jeweller and a computer programmer. He has published two novels, Spiral of Fire, (David Philip, 1986) and Goldin: A Tale (iUniverse, 2005), two volumes of poems, Scenes and Visions, (Snailpress, 1990) and GHAAP, Sonnets from the Northern Cape (Kwela Books and Snailpress, 2005), a memoir, Intricacy: A Meditation on Memory, (Double Storey, 2005), several chapbooks of poetry, and extensively on the Internet. He is a veteran performer of poetry, and has made a CD of jazz & poetry with Chris Wildman, Everybody Needs. He lives in Cape Town and works as a designer and jeweller. He teaches Goju karate. He is married to Julia Martin, and has three children.