Wendy Cope

A Twenty-minute Selection

By Wendy Cope

2012

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4.67

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9H06M

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The best way to experience the poetry of Wendy Cope on your iPad. Faber Voices lifts classic poems off the page, bringing together audio recordings of great poets reading their own work with an editor's selection of their poems. A wonderful and intimate experience for poetry lovers, Faber Voices are also an invaluable resource for those studying or exploring these works for the first time. This selection allows you to appreciate the poems as never before, in a beautifully clean design, with options to read and listen to the poet simultaneously. This is how poetry for iBooks should be.See each poem exactly as it was intended, in a fixed format with no erroneous line breaks.Hear every poem as it should be heard, read by the poet at the tap of a finger.Experience the ultimate Cope selection, made exclusively for this ebook.The full list of FlowersDefining the ProblemLossSome More Light VerseFavouriteAnother Unfortunate ChoiceA Christmas PoemKindness to AnimalsNamesThe Uncertainty of the PoetIn the Rhine ValleyAfter the LunchValentineBloody MenThe Christmas LifeBy The Round Pond Looking out ...TimekeepingDifferences of Opinion (i) He Tells HerOn A TrainA Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by WordsworthA Nursery Rhyme as it might have been written by T.S.EliotWaste Land LimericksA Policeman's LotAn Attempt at Unrhymed VerseWendy 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 BraudeAward for light verse. Two Cures for Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008.Search 'Seamus Heaney', 'Ted Hughes' or 'Philip Larkin' for more Faber Voices.

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Author

Wendy Cope

Author · 14 books

Wendy Cope was educated at Farringtons School, Chislehurst, London and then, after finishing university at St Hilda's College, Oxford, she worked for 15 years as a primary school teacher in London. In 1981, she became Arts and Reviews editor for the Inner London Education Authority magazine, 'Contact'. Five years later she became a freelance writer and was a television critic for 'The Spectator magazine' until 1990. Her first published work 'Across the City' was in a limited edition, published by the Priapus Press in 1980 and her first commercial book of poetry was 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' in 1986. Since then she has published two further books of poetry and has edited various anthologies of comic verse. 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. In 2007 she was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. In 1998 she was the BBC Radio 4 listeners' choice to succeed Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate and when Andrew Motion's term of office ended in 2009 she was once again considered as a replacement. She was awarded the OBE in the Queen's 2010 Birthday Honours List. Gerry Wolstenholme February 2011