A01=Wendy Cope
Author_Wendy Cope
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Family Values
humorous poetry
Kingsley Amis
Making Cocoa
Peter Green
Product details
- ISBN 9780571167050
- Weight: 120g
- Dimensions: 133 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets).
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 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008. The Orange and other poems was published in 2023, followed by her Collected Poems in 2024.
