Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

by WendyCope (Author), Wendy Cope (Author)

Synopsis

Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.

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3 in stock

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:

ISBN 10: 0571137474
ISBN 13: 9780571137473
Book Overview: Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis is Wendy Cope's now classic debut collection of warm, wry, and often hilarious, verse.

Author Bio
Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008.