A01=Wendy Cope
Author_Wendy Cope
Category=DCF
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Men & Women
Product details
- ISBN 9780571137473
- Weight: 110g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.
'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what will engage a reader's attention.' Poetry Review
'A jet-age Tennyson.' London Review of Books
'Like Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.' Acumen Series
Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award for light verse. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008.
