Description
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.
The Mighty Stream 
Spiritlands 
Being Alive 
Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Selected Poetry 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
What Rhymes with Sneeze?