Serious Concerns

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Cope has written in a variety of established traditional verse forms, and here she uses the triolet, an eight-line poem with a rhyme scheme of abaaabab. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 1987 and was awarded the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1995. And although she is known for writing about the everyday, she has also occasionally engaged with more momentous events.

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One of the funniest recurring aspects of Wendy Cope’s early poetry is her parodies (or burlesques, to use a perhaps more apt term) of various canonical works of poetry. She is also the author of two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991). Once again we have one key rhyme running throughout a short poem and serving as its backbone, if you will. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-09-25 17:08:11 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1124906 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London [u.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. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Some fans are displeased with the changes and prefer that initial lighthearted approach, but one of the best comic poets from the past fifty years has every authority to develop her style and not to be confined by expectations created by her accomplishments". is a poet whose witty lyrics and pitch-perfect parodies have gained her a readership far beyond most of her peers.

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She has edited a number of poetry anthologies including The Orchard Book of Funny Poems (1993), Is That The New Moon? A new mood of contentment infuses her most recent collection with poems of domestic celebration like ‘Being Boring’ or the unabashed tenderness of ‘On a Train’: “Long, radiant minutes,/your hand in my hand. a bit disappointed as i wanted to love this more but unfortunately up until section vi (where it really picks up in my opinion) only two poems stuck out - including "the orange" which i was already familiar (in love) with.Two Cures For Love (2008) is a collection mainly of previously published poems, but includes extensive notes that give some contextual background and dates of when the poems were first written. There were a few other poems I liked as well, but on the whole, this is not for me, and that's okay. The title, Family Values, is ironic, although I’m not sure that was clear to everyone who bought the book – some of them may have been disappointed. Five collections of her adult poetry have been published, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, Serious Concerns in 1992, If I Don't Know in 2001, Family Values in 2011, and Anecdotal Evidence in 2018.