Wendy Cope

by Rory Waterman

Book Overview

Wendy Cope is one of Britain's most popular poets: her first two collections have together sold almost half a million copies, and in 1998, when Ted Hughes died, she was the BBC listeners' choice to succeed him as Poet Laureate. She is also contrarian and sometimes controversial, and has been celebrated as one of the finest parodists of her, or any, generation. It is perhaps surprising, then, that her popular appeal has been met with critical near-silence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802077871
• ISBN13: 9781802077872
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"