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My heart has made its mind up
And I'm afraid it's you.
The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of
Britain's wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.
In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving,
Wendy Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling
- and being - in love to ways to help you deal with a painful break-up
or the memories of people loved and lost, this is a book you will want
to savour and share with all your friends.
Engaging and fun, this poem is about the school day and is written
by award-winning contemporary poet Wendy Cope. Engaging and fun,
this poem is about the school day and is written by award-winning
contemporary poet Wendy Cope. Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied
sentence structure and natural language On pages 14-15, children
can recap the different school activities featured in the poem
using a story map. Text type: A poem Curriculum links: Citizenship:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for
Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its
successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular,
addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring
Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps'
(Typically Useless Male Poets).
A wonderful anthology of poems by women poets, collected by WENDY
COPE. Collected by one of Britain's foremost poets, Is that the New
Moon? is an exciting mix of styles and genres by leading women
poets including: Grace Nichols, Frances Horovitz, Jenny Joseph,
Wendy Cope, Alice Walker, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou and Margaret
Atwood. This stunning anthology of poems has been specially
compiled with teenage girls in mind. The collection also has much
to offer to and will be enjoyed by teenage boys and adults, too.
Vibrant, funny, tender, sad and moving poems from the leading women
poets of our time.
A beautifully illustrated anthology of Wendy Cope's poems, this
collection includes well-loved classics such as "Summer Toes" and
"Into the Bathtub" as well of lots of brand new, fabulous poems,
which take us on a wonderful journey full of little adventures that
will resonate with children everywhere. Turquoise/Band 7 books
offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer
sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. Text type: A poetry
book. A map on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to trace the
journey the anthology takes, recounting the poems as they go.
Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part - developing skills of
communication and participation; Art and Design: Portraying
relationships; Music: Play it again - exploring rhythmic patterns
The idea for this book 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 to observe the development
of her 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.
The idea for this book 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 to observe the development
of her 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.
Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious
Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the
examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'),
and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil
our futures, or allow us to realize the golden age of five minutes
ago, or weigh the 'out there' of the present moment, where what is
in sight is also out of reach. These are poems of well-tempered
yearning, conditional idylls which sing in praise of lying fallow,
the creativity of daydream, the yeast of boredom, the truths of
intermediacy. Wendy Cope's formal tact is alertly present - in
triolets, rondeaux, villanelles, squibs, epigrams - small forms
whose power to disarm goes hand in hand with her characteristically
tart ripostes to the way things (usually) are. This collection
extends the variousness of her occasions.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for
Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its
successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular,
addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring
Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps'
(Typically Useless Male Poets). This beautifully designed edition
forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing
over the decades.
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with
religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new
collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in
evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood;
and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she
achieves an intriguing blend of sadness and joy. Two very different
sets of commissioned poems round off a remarkable volume, whose
opening poem sounds clearly the profound note of compassion which
underlies the whole.
When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it
catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her
as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets. 'Cope has an
extraordinary canny sense - quite rare among poets - of what will
engage a reader's attention.' Poetry Review 'A jet-age Tennyson.'
London Review of Books 'Like Larkin and Harrison, Cope has proven
that a popular poetry is possible without compromising quality.'
Acumen Series
In The Funny Side Wendy Cope, herself one of the funniest poets now
writing in English, has collected 101 of the poems that have most
amused her. Acknowledged classics of the genre are to be found
alongside newer pieces, and the collection as a whole illustrates
the great range to be found under the heading of 'humorous poetry'.
For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's
most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together
her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The
Christmas Life', together with new and previously unpublished work.
Cope celebrates the joyful aspects of the season but doesn't
overlook the problems and sadness it can bring. With lively
illustrations to accompany the words, it is a book to enjoy this
Christmas and in years to come.
Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with
her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the
first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of
her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the
light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published
and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch. Here
readers can meet the Enid-Blyton-obsessed schoolgirl, the
ambivalent daughter, the amused teacher, the sensitive journalist,
the cynical romantic and the sardonic television critic, as well as
touching on books and writers who have informed a lifetime of
reading and writing. Wendy Cope is a master of the one-liner as
well as the couplet, the telling review as well as the sonnet, and
Life, Love and the Archers gives us a wonderfully entertaining and
unforgettable portrait of one of England's favourite writers.
You can't touch it, but it affects how you feel. You can't see it,
but it might be there when you look at yourself in the mirror. You
can't hear it, but it's there when you talk about yourself or when
you think about yourself. What is this important but mysterious
thing? It's your self-esteem! Self-esteem can have a big part to
play in how you feel about yourself and also how much you enjoy
things or worry about things. To understand self-esteem, it helps
to break the term into two words. Let's first take a look at the
word esteem, which means that someone or something is important,
special, or valuable.
Contains 366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap
years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, this
title includes poems to learn by heart or treasure and enjoy. It
features poets ranging from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and
Kipling, to contemporary poets such as Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy,
Maya Angelou, and Thom Gunn.
When Wendy Cope developed an interest in poetry, she bought a
selection of George Herbert's verse. She writes of his work: 'I
took to it immediately. What especially appealed to me - and still
does - was this poet's wonderfully playful delight in poetic form,
and the fact that these playful poems are, at the same time,
utterly serious...There is humour, as well as exuberant
inventiveness, in his work, but no one challenges his standing as a
seriuos poet, whose primary concern was not to show off but to tell
the truth.' In George Herbert: Verse and Prose, Wendy Cope has
brought together a fine selection of Herbert's poems and introduces
us to a little of his prose and a few of his 'Outlandish Proverbs'.
She has also provided an extended introduction to the work of this
important seventeenth-century poet.
In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time. In several of the poems she reimagines Shakespeare in unorthodox fashion; in others she offers heartfelt tributes to friends and to public figures including Eric Morecambe and John Cage.
Anecdotal Evidence demonstrates the formal brilliance and empathetic insight which have delighted readers for years, and shows why Wendy Cope is one of our best-loved poets.
In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to
prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. Here is a
collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love,
places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and
solitude, music, food and drink, books, and the unadulterated
pleasure of taking a shower. Among the more surprising items are
the Chinese Po Chu-I 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.
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