Book description
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. 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.
