£7.50. Doors open at 2:30. "Described by Nicolas Tredell as a 'jet-age Tennyson' and often lauded in the same hushed tones as Larkin and Betjeman, Wendy Cope made her mark on the literary landscape as a pitch-perfect English humourist with her sharply parodic debut Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1984). Her other collections include the Whitbread-shortlisted If I Don't Know (2001) and Two Cures for Love - a sparkling new annotated miscellany spanning 1979-2006. Chosen by listeners in a BBC Radio 4 poll to succeed Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate in 1998, she is as popular with her public as she is revered by the critics." (christiguc)… (more)
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis 545 copies, 9 reviews Serious Concerns 284 copies, 3 reviews If I Don't Know 149 copies, 1 review The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems (Editor) 77 copies, 3 reviews Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006 68 copies, 1 review Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (Editor) 61 copies, 1 review Family Values 46 copies, 2 reviews Is That the New Moon? 30 copies The River Girl 25 copies, 1 review Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose 25 copies, 1 review Anecdotal Evidence 21 copies, 1 review Twiddling Your Thumbs 15 copies The Orchard Book of Funny Poems 15 copies Christmas Poems 9 copies, 1 review Going for a Drive (Collins Big Cat) 6 copies The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories 6 copies If I Don"t Know 1 copy The Squirrel & the Crow 1 copy The Christmas Life 1 copy Hope and the 42 1 copy Poetry introduction. 5 1 copy Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 812 copies, 6 reviews The Nation's Favourite Poems (some editions) 548 copies, 7 reviews How to Become Ridiculously Well-read in One Evening: A Collection of… (Contributor, some editions) 229 copies, 2 reviews The Pleasure of Reading (Contributor) 169 copies, 7 reviews The Virago Book of Wicked Verse (Contributor) 74 copies, 1 review The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the… (Contributor) 68 copies, 1 review The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and… 61 copies, 2 reviews The Faber Book of Christmas (Contributor) 38 copies, 1 review The Best Contemporary Women's Humor (Contributor) 25 copies Modern Women Poets (Contributor) 14 copies George Herbert: Verse and Prose (Editor) 5 copies Wendy Cope has 1 past event. (show)
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