Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

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Wendy Cope

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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 of poets. 'Cope has an extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what will engage a reader's attention.' Poetry Review 'A jet-age Tennyson.' London Review of Books 'Like Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.' Acumen Series

Author Biography:

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 Cholmondley Award for poetry and in 1993 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1995 she won the American Academy of Letters Michael Braude Award for Light Verse and in 1999 she was awarded a Hon. D.Lit from King Alfred's College, Winchester (Southampton University). She has written and edited numerous poetry volumes and anthologies for both adults and children, and was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Book of the Year for If I Don't Know.

Release date Australia

April 9th, 2001

Author

Wendy Cope

Audience

Primary & Secondary Education

Edition

Main

Pages

Dimensions

130x197x8

ISBN-13

9780571137473

Product ID

2405582

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