| Wendy Cope (b. 1945) 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 1986. Her debut collection, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, struck a chord with its lampooning of literary pretensions and its wry look at contemporary relationships, and has sold over 180,000 copies to date. Her subsequent collections - Serious Concerns in 1992 and If I Don't Know in 2001 (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award) - both confirmed her reputation as a classic English humorist whilst also allowing room for poems of a more meditative tone. She has edited several poetry anthologies, including Heaven on Earth: 101 happy poems, and her poems for children are widely anthologised. She currently lives in Winchester.
1 An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse 0.43
2 From Strugnell's Sonnets: The expense of spirits is a crying shame... 1.05
3 God and The Jolly Bored Bog-Mouse 1.29
4 Strugnell's Haiku 0.39
5 Waste Land Limericks 1.43
6 A Policeman's Lot 2.06
7 Reading Scheme 1.42
8 A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by William Wordsworth 1.11
9 A Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by T. S. Eliot 0.46
10 Rondeau Redoublé 1.31
11 My Lover 4.31
12 Tich Miller 1.04
13 Flowers 0.41
14 Defining the Problem 0.22
15 Loss 0.20
16 Some More Light Verse 1.08
17 Favourite 0.19
18 Another Unfortunate Choice 0.24
19 A Christmas Poem 0.26
20 Kindness to Animals 0.41
21 Names 1.06
22 The Uncertainty of the Poet 1.11
23 In The Rhine Valley 1.02
24 After the Lunch 0.53
25 Nine-line Triolet 0.52
26 Valentine 0.34
27 Leaving 0.30
28 Bloody Men 0.44
29 As Sweet 0.33
30 The Christmas Life 1.10
31 By The Round Pond 0.58
32 Haiku: Looking Out of the Back Bedroom Window without My
Glasses 0.18
33 Timekeeping 0.19
34 30th December 0.55
35 Differences of Opinion (i) He Tells Her 0.42
36 Differences of Opinion (ii) Your Mother Knows (unpublished) 1.35
37 The Sitter 1.28
38 Les Vacances 1.10
39 Being Boring 1.31
40 On a Train 0.31
41 Spared 1.01
42 An Anniversary Poem 1.37
43 The Month of May 1.25
Total length of the recording 45.00
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