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.
| ISBN: | 9780571280629 |
| Publication date: | 19th January 2012 |
| Author: | Wendy Cope |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 66 pages |
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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