Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope, OBE ( born July 21 1945 in Erith, United Kingdom) is a contemporary British poet. Currently, she lives with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon in Winchester.

To date, she has published three books of poetry: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986 ), Serious Concerns (1992) and If I Do not Know ( 2001). Some of her poems are written from the perspective of the struggling poet Jason Stugnell. She also worked as Parodistin and aimed it at both sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney from:

My true love hath my heart and I have hers We swapped load Tuesday and felt quite elated But now Whenever one of us Refers To ' my heart ' things get rather complicated.

As well as TS Eliot, whose poem The Waste Land ( The Waste Land ) abridging it to a limerick:

In April one seldom feels cheerful; Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful; Clairvoyants distress me, Commuters depress me - Met Stetson and gave him to earful.

Works

  • Across the City Priapus Press ( limited edition ), 1980
  • Hope and the 42 Other Branch Readings, 1984
  • Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Faber and Faber, 1986
  • Poem from a Colour Chart of House Paints ( limited edition) Priapus Press, 1986
  • Does She Like Word Games? Anvil Press, 1988
  • Men and Their Boring Arguments Wykeham, 1988
  • Twiddling Your Thumbs Faber and Faber, 1988
  • Is That the New Moon? (editor ), Harper Collins, 1989
  • The River Girl Faber and Faber, 1991
  • Serious Concerns Faber and Faber, 1992
  • The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking ( contributor ) Faber and Faber, 1993
  • The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (editor) Orchard, 1993
  • The Squirrel and the Crow Prospero Poets, 1994
  • 1 Poems ( contributor ) Addison -Wesley Longman, 1995
  • Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died ( contributor ) Macmillan, 1996
  • Casting a Spell ( contributor ) Faber and Faber, 1996
  • Marigolds Grow Wild on Platforms: An Anthology of Poetry Railway ( contributor ) Ward Lock, 1996
  • Over the Moon: Championship Football Poems ( contributor ) Red Fox, 1996
  • A Draft of XXX Cantos ( contributor ) Faber and Faber, 1997
  • Dear Future: A Time Capsule of Poems ( contributor ) Hodder & Stoughton, 1997
  • Evergreen verses ( contributor ) Dent, 1997
  • For All Occasions ( contributor ) Methuen, 1997
  • Funny Bones ( contributor ) Collins Educational, 1998
  • Silly Bones ( contributor ) Scholastic, 1998
  • The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems (editor) Faber and Faber, 1998
  • The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes ( contributor ) Faber and Faber, 1999
  • The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories ( editor) Faber and Faber, 1999
  • Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems (editor) Orchard, 2000
  • Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (editor) Faber and Faber, 2001
  • If I Do not Know Faber and Faber, 2001
  • Is That The New Moon: Poems by Women Poets (selector ) Collins, 2002
  • George Herbert: Verse and Prose (selector and introduction) SPCK, 2003
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