Wendy Cope
Standard Name: Cope, Wendy
Birth Name: Wendy Cope
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look easy. She has taken up cudgels on behalf of the comic and light-hearted in poetry, and argued that such a manner is not incompatible with underlying seriousness. Indeed, her humour often sweetens a provocative statement: about men in their unequal private relationships with women, for instance, or about pompousness and self-serving in the poetry industry. She has reviewed, written for children, edited a number of anthologies, written introductions for the work of others, and, recently, embarked on narrative poetry in the tradition of
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Texts
Cope, Wendy. “’We like being married but we should have had a choice’”. theguardian.com.
Cope, Wendy. “A curse on late payers”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 2, p. 57. Cope, Wendy. Across the City. Priapus Press, 1980.
Cope, Wendy. Anecdotal Evidence. Faber, 2018.
Cope, Wendy. “Differences of Opinion, Wendy Cope”. Poetry Foundation.
Cope, Wendy. “Do you like my poems? So pay for them”. Guardian Weekly.
Cope, Wendy. Family Values. Faber, 2011.
Cope, Wendy. If I Don’t Know. Faber and Faber, 2001.
Roche, Christine. Is That the New Moon?. Editor Cope, Wendy, Lions, 1989.
Cope, Wendy. “Letter”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 1, p. 38. Cope, Wendy. “Letter”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, p. 187. Cope, Wendy. Life, Love and The Archers. Two Roads, 2014.
Cope, Wendy. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. Faber and Faber, 1986.
Cope, Wendy. “On Erith: ’A place few people have heard of and even fewer can pronounce’”. theguardian.com.
Cope, Wendy. Serious Concerns. Faber and Faber, 1992.
Cope, Wendy, and Nicholas Garland. The River Girl. Faber and Faber, 1991.
Cope, Wendy, and Sally Kindberg. Twiddling Your Thumbs. Faber, 1988.
Cope, Wendy. Two Cures for Love, Selected Poems, 1979-2006. Faber, 2008.
Cope, Wendy. “Two Sonnets for Shakespeare 400”. The Guardian, p. Review 5.
Cope, Wendy. “Women’s Poetry Competition 2006”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 31-2.
Cope, Wendy. “Women’s Poetry Competition 2014”. Mslexia, No. 63, pp. 27-9.
Cope, Wendy. “Writers’ Rooms”. theguardian.com.
Cope, Wendy. “Writing to length”. Mslexia, No. 25, p. 47.