Wendy Cope
Wendy 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 Braude Award for light verse.
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Audio snippets:
- 'A Policeman's Lot' : poetryarchive.org 06.07.2009
- 'A Christmas Poem' : poetryarchive.org 06.07.2009
- 'The Uncertainty of the Poet' : poetryarchive.org 06.07.2009
- 'Bloody Men' : poetryarchive.org 06.07.2009
