Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571259413
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 poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoublé')
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571259298
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 poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoubl�')
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher :
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571202508
There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoubleacute;') 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 poets.
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571254527
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).
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571262104
Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the golden age of five minutes ago, or weigh the 'out there' of the present moment, where what is in sight is also out of reach. These are poems of well-tempered yearning, conditional idylls which sing in praise of lying fallow, the creativity of daydream, the yeast of boredom, the truths of intermediacy. Wendy Cope's formal tact is alertly present - in triolets, rondeaux, villanelles, squibs, epigrams - small forms whose power to disarm goes hand in hand with her characteristically tart ripostes to the way things (usually) are. This collection extends the variousness of her occasions.
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9780571240784
'Two Cures for Love' is a sparkling miscellany, bringing together the best of Wendy Cope's poetry.
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2012
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571280629
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which underlies the whole.
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9780571207060
In a gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. What makes us happy? In her introduction the editor says of the subject-matter of these poems: 'A lot of them are about love - of lovers, spouses, children. There are also poems about places, the beauty of the natural world and the changing seasons, about company and solitude, about music, books, food and drink, and the pleasure of taking a shower. And there are some religious poems.' Among the more surprising items are the Chinese Po Chu-l on the advantages of baldness, the eighteenth-century John Dyer on the kindly behaviour of his ox, and an unusually cheerful Thomas Hardy enjoying the sight of seven women laughing as they stagger, arm in arm, down an icy hill, Catullus, Chaucer, Clare, Dickinson, Betjeman and Larkin are among the contributors who help to demonstrate that people who believe that 'happiness writes white' have got it wrong.
Author : Wendy Cope
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2018
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780571338603
Wendy Cope's first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, chosen as one of the Telegraph's 15 Best Poetry Books of All Time.
Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118843207
A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.
