Share - If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope (Trade Paperback) If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope (Trade Paperback) Be the first to write a review. About this product. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. Brand new. $ New (other) $ Pre-owned. Rated by Users Critics. Check out detail reviews rating quotes community of If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope. ISBN , The latest collection by Wendy Cope, her first since Serious Concerns in , extends her concern w. Wendy Cope is best known for the flippant satirical verse of “Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis”. In this “If I Don’t Know” collection she is older, softer, more reflective. Here are no limerick parodies of Eliot or Shakespeare, or poems skewering her invented poet Strugnall/5(29).
Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in , 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. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope (Paperback, ) at the best online prices at eBay! Wendy Cope was raised in Kent, England, where her parents often recited poetry to her. She earned a BA in history and trained as a teacher at Oxford University. Cope taught in primary schools for many years before publishing her first book of poetry, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (). The collection was an incredible success, selling tens of thousands of copies in the UK.
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, critic and poet A.M. Juster declared, “one has to go back to Byron to find a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging, and technically outstanding as Cope.”Cope’s poetry collections include Serious Concerns (); If I Don’t Know (), shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems – (); Family Values (); Christmas. Don’t forget to check with neighbours / sorting office / outhouses if you are out a lot! If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope | eBay How will I know it has been sent?. Wendy Cope (b. ) is a poet whose witty lyrics and pitch-perfect parodies have gained her a readership far beyond most of her peers. Born in Erith, Kent, she read History at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She then taught in primary schools in London before becoming a freelance writer in
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