Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (FF Classics)

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (FF Classics)

by WendyCope (Author)

Synopsis

There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redouble') When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Edition: Export - FF Classics (Export)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04 Oct 1999

ISBN 10: 0571202500
ISBN 13: 9780571202508
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.