Book description
The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of
meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an
edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms,
contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new
arrangement of the poetry as a whole. The notes also identify dates of
composition, so that it is possible to observe the development of her
work. As well as drawing on Wendy Cope's three published books, the
selection also includes a significant number of poems collected or
published for the first time.
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.
