Albery, Nicholas / With a Foreword by Wendy Cope

POEM FOR THE DAY - 366 poems, old and new, worth learning by heart.

Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997 ; Conditie: In goede staat. Paperback. 400 pp.

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Book number: 191336357

WENDY COPE.

Across the City. Poems.

Priapus Press, 'Priapus Poets' series, Berkhamsted, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine .

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Book number: ARC93567

Catalogue: Poetry

Cope, Wendy:

Dorotheas Daumen. Neue Fingerspiele

Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg, 1990. 31 Seiten Hardcover kartoniert Gewicht/weight ca. 220 gr. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, keine Eintragungen. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut.

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Book number: 233413

Catalogue: Kinderbücher, Jugendbücher

Wendy Cope (editor)

Heaven On Earth : 101 Happy Poems

Faber & Faber 2001 Paperback, 154pp. In a gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. What makes us happy? In her introduction the editor says of the subject-matter of these 'A lot of them are about love - of lovers, spouses, children. There are also poems about places, the beauty of the natural world and the changing seasons, about company and solitude, about music, books, food and drink, and the pleasure of taking a shower. And there are some religious poems. ' Among the more surprising items are the Chinese Po Chu-l on the advantages of baldness, the eighteenth-century John Dyer on the kindly behaviour of his ox, and an unusually cheerful Thomas Hardy enjoying the sight of seven women laughing as they stagger, arm in arm, down an icy hill, Catullus, Chaucer, Clare, Dickinson, Betjeman and Larkin are among the contributors who help to demonstrate that people who believe that 'happiness writes white' have got it wrong. Foxed, cover faded, otherwise good. (ISBN: 9780571207060). Fair.

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Book number: 1578034

Catalogue: General

Keywords: Poetry9780571207060 9780571207060

COPE, WENDY

If I Don't Know

Faber and Faber. 2001, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780571207671). Hardcover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, Signed on title page. Dust jacket tanned, with small tear close to top of spine. Book has edges yellowing, with foxing on spread where a leaf was dog eared. Very Good/Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: G01160

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COPE, Wendy (ed)

Is that the new moon? poems by women poets

London, Collins, 1990. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket New ed.. Pages slightly yellowed; inscriptions on front free end paper Photo:. ISBN: 0001853929

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Book number: BOOKS105931I

COPE, Wendy

Life, love and The Archers: recollections, reviews and other prose

Two Roads, 2014. Used - Very Good. SIGNED COPY VG hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket 1st ed. Signed by Wendy Cope on title page, with 'signed first edition' wraparound band. A very nice copy, almost as-new. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_434_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 1444795368

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Book number: BOOKS225543I

WENDY COPE.

Love, Life and The Archers. Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose. (SIGNED)

Two Roads, London, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Fine /Near Fine.

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Book number: SPE90390

COPE,WENDY

MAKING COCOA FOR KINGSLEY AMIS

Chatam 1986, 61 pp., w188

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Book number: 222031

Catalogue: General

COPE, WENDY

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

London, Faber and Faber. 1988. Soft cover. Book, 8vo. 69 pp. Illustrated card wraps. A nice copy of this very popular and amusing Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Insignificant creasing to wrapper. Very Good.

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Book number: 9382

Catalogue: Literature (Primary)

Keywords: Literature, Poetry, British Writers

COPE, WENDY

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Faber and Faber. 1999. (ISBN: 9780571202508). Paperback. Paperback in excellent condition. Amazon Wendy Cope is very clever. She's good at taking much of what poetry holds dear and pricking its balloon. Her humour is an acquired taste and one short poem from "Strugnell's Haiku" sets the tone of this volume, first published in 1986, to great popular acclaim. "The leaves have fallen / And the snow has fallen and / Soon my hair also .." a perfect haiku in form and perfectly ridiculous. This is her raison d'etre, to highlight the absurd in love, sex, courtship and in the sometimes stuffy, self-righteous literary poetry world. The title poem "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis" was inspired by a dream apparently and the short four-line verse tells us no more. "Some kind of record seemed vital. / I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / But I love the title." She tantalises but always stops short of deeper meaning. She mocks the rather pompous task of the Poet Laureate with her "All Purpose Poem for State Occasions": "The nation rejoices or mourns / As this happy or sombre day dawns." She slips into the bizarre persona of a policeman assigned to patrol the unconscious of Ted Hughes and parodies early reading books in an a-b a-b rhyme about an adulterous milkman: "Go Peter! Go Jane! Come milkman, come!" Her nursery rhymes in the style of Wordsworth ("Baa Baa Black Sheep") and T.S. Eliot ("Hickory Dickory Dock") are hilarious. It comes as quite a shock to come upon several serious poems, such as "On Finding an Old Photograph" in which she muses on her father before her birth and "all his sadness / and the things I didn't give him." The narrator of "Tich Miller" is bullied in school. "They usually chose me, the lesser dud / and she lolloped, unselected / to the back of the other team." There is little jauntiness in "At 3 a.m." in which the narrator imagines someone sleeping somewhere else with a woman next to him, crying quietly. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 21980

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9780571202508

COPE, WENDY

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

London, Faber and Faber, 1999. Later printing. Paperback. 3rd printing of this mass market paperback edition. Pp 57. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good + .

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Book number: 94550

Catalogue: Poetry

COPE, Wendy. [Signed presentation copy with ALS]

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (1986). The Faber Library, 24.

London: Faber and Faber, 1997. 8vo., pp.59, charcoal hardcover, gilt; ex libris Richard Shepherd, with ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, and with author’s signed presentation inscription to title page, also included is a series of signed handwritten postcards and one greetings card from the author, a fine copy, in water-stained (with rings from water glass) unclipped dust-jacket.

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Book number: 38607

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Cope, Wendy

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

Faber & Faber, 2001. Used - Very Good. VG paperback . Undated later reprint. Owner's name on first blank page. Spine slightly creased. Otherwise a clean, tidy copy. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_94271_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 0571137474

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Book number: BOOKS316467I

COPE, Wendy

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

London, Faber and Faber, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 69pp. Fine/fine. Pristine and perfect first edition of the first verse collection by the award-winning English poet (born 1945), signed boldly by her in black ballpoint on title page. .

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Book number: 50522

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Poetry