Description
The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope’s experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers readers a new arrangement of the poetry as a whole. The notes also identify dates of composition, so that it is possible to observe the development of her work. As well as drawing on Wendy Cope’s three published books, the selection also includes a significant number of poems collected or published for the first time.







Ten Poems by Walter de la Mare
Five Poems About Teachers
Carnac (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets)
I Speak For The Devil
Dreams of Power and Other Poems
Counting Backwards
Book of Mercy
Frost Fair
Selected Poetry
Ten Poems about Nottingham
Poems