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Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006

Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006

by WendyCope (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

The idea for this book - a new selection of her poems with notes - 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 observe the development of the 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Feb 2009
ISBN 10: 0571240798
ISBN 13: 9780571240791
Book Overview: Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006, by Wendy Cope, gives a new selection of fully annotated poems - and never before published pieces - that give the reader a unique glance into the writing process of a hugely admired poet.

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. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award for light verse.