Wendy Cope
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- Wendy Cope(1945-Present Day)
- personal life
- born Erith, Kent 1945
- read history at st Hilda collage oxford
- fellow of the royal society of liturature
- 1998- bbc radio 4 listeners choise
- edited a number of anthologies
- The Orchid book of funny poems(1993), is that a new moon?(1989), the funny side:101 humerous poems(1998), the faber book of bedtime stories(1999), heaven and earth:101 happy poems(2001)
- wrote 2 childrens books, twidling your thumbs(1988), the river girl(1991)
- poetry best known for its humor and wit
- self-reflective poetry that shows a concern for the writing process and for writing poetyr
- parodies the work of other poets
- poetry jokingly refers to tension between earning a living as a poet and remaining faithful to ones ideals
- remained largely accessible to the reading public
- relatively popular when compared with that of many other contemporary poets
- personal life
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