Wendy Cope

In this collection of poems, 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.

For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation's most popular and respected poets. In this anthology she celebrates the joyful aspects of the season but doesn't overlook the problems and sadness it can bring.

Wendy Cope describes a wide range of life experiences in this collection of poems which display both her compassion and humour.

Wendy Cope set out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines, and in this anthology she proved it. These poems are about love, life, places, the natural world, food, drink, books, music, company and solitude, but they are all unashamedly happy.

Wendy Cope is recognised as a funny, satirical and perceptive poet, and these qualities shine through this selection, along with a newer more lyrical style.

Love and despair, ambition and breakdown, power and loss – this eclectic mix of poetry explores a wide range of female emotions from some of the leading women writers of our time including Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Jenny Joseph, Sylvia Plath and Maya Angelou.

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prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted to the serious, taken from a lifetime of published and unpublished work, and all with Cope's lightness of touch.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.

A collection of poems featuring works such as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and the Boring Arguments', and 'Two Cures for Love'. Light and humorous but with depth, these poems will resonate with both men and women making their way in the modern world.

A miscellany of new and previously published poems frequently included in Cope’s performances and readings. The aim is provide an edition which includes background information on the contexts and occasions of her poetry.